 Cap" by the vulgar, from the supposed resemblance of its bells to this part of fairy dress. To the same plant, many rustic superstitions are attached, particularly its salutation of supernatural beings, by bending its long stalks in token of recognition....  The Doom of Derenzie, a Poem - Side 130av Thomas Furlong - 1829 - 145 siderUten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Thomas Crofton Croker - 1824 - 442 sider
...large scarlet caps; hence the beautiful plant Digitalis Purpurea is named " Fairy Cap" by the vulgar, from the supposed resemblance of its bells to this...salutation of supernatural beings, by bending its long stalks in token of recognition. Old and solitary thorns, in common with the digitalis, are regarded... | |
 | Thomas Crofton Croker - 1824 - 448 sider
...large scarlet caps; hence the beautiful plant Digitalis Purpurea is named " Fairy Cap" by the vulgar, from the supposed resemblance of its bells to this...salutation of supernatural beings, by bending its long stalks in token of recognition. Old and solitary thorns, in common with the digitalis, are regarded... | |
 | Thomas Crofton Croker - 1825 - 396 sider
...words on little Lusmore, whose nickname is not perhaps sufficiently explained by the word " Fairy Cap." Lusmore, literally the great herb, is specifically...salutation of supernatural beings, by bending its long stalks in token of recognition." ritalis -Cap, othis rustic tation Iks in THE PRIEST'S SUPPER... | |
 | 1829 - 506 sider
...able to heal scalds and burnsv by the application of that elastic inslrument of " sweet sounds." * In the south of Ireland the foxglove is called Lusmore....salutation of supernatural beings, by bending its long stalks in token of recognition." Crofre?'* Fairy Ltgends. THE APATHY OP LIFE. " There are a few,... | |
 | 1836 - 282 sider
...large scarlet caps; hence the beautiful plant, Digitalis purpurea, is named " Fairy Cap" by the vulgar, from the supposed resemblance of its bells to this...salutation of supernatural beings, by bending its long stalks in token of recognition. Old and solitary thorns, in common with the digitalis, are regarded... | |
 | William Henry Bartlett - 1844 - 312 sider
...large scarlet caps ; hence the beautiful plant Digitalis purpurea, is named ' fairy-cap' by the vulgar, from the supposed resemblance of its bells to this...salutation of supernatural beings, by bending its long stalks in token of recognition. " Old and solitary thorns, in common with the digitalis, are regarded... | |
 | Robert Sears - 1844 - 514 sider
...scarlet caps ; hence the beautiful plant, digitalis purpurea, is named " fairy-cap" by the vulgar, from the supposed resemblance of its bells to this...by bending its long-stalks in token of recognition. Old and solitary thorns, in common with the digitalis, are regarded with reverence by the peasantry,... | |
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