Showing posts with label fantasy botany. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fantasy botany. Show all posts

Saturday, September 20, 2014

The Mistle Child




 Sir Hugh Platt says: “By sitting uppon a hill late in an evening, neare a wood, in a few nights a firedrake will appeare; marke where it lighteth, and there you shall find an oake with a mistletoe therein, at the roots wherof there is a mistel child, wherof many strange things are conceived.”- W.C. Hazlitt’s Dictionary of Faiths and Folklore. The Mistle Child at My Good Babushka.

Wednesday, June 25, 2014

The Devil Eats the Cure for Human Suffering





The Devil's Bit. Inspired by W.C. Hazlitt's Dictionary of Faiths and Folklore. There is one herb, flat at the bottom, almost as if its root were cut off. It is said that the devil, knowing that part of the root would cure all diseases, bit it off.