# folklorethursday plantlore botanical

Need a fix for writer's block? Try the singing apple of Chéry and Fair-star. Anyone who possesses this fragrant apple is turned, magically, into a writer of poetry and prose. [🍎: Deborah Griscom Passmore, USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection]

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2019-09-06

The Floralia was an ancient Roman festival in honour of the goddess Flora. Celebrated in lavish fashion from the end of April to the first of May, the festival included Ludi Florae, the "Games of Flora".

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2019-05-02

In the Middle Ages nutmeg was worn in pouches to ward off plague. Nathaniel Hodges (1629–1688) put a nutmeg in his mouth before treating plague victims & attributed it to his survival (Fleas dislike the smell of nutmeg so wearing it might have helped a tiny bit)

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2019-03-28

WOLFBANE
'Even a man who is pure in heart and says his prayers by night, may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms and the autumn moon is bright '
Faux ballad from THE WOLFMAN (1941)

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2019-03-18