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Peg Duthie ([personal profile] pondhop) wrote2013-09-12 08:24 pm
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from the Kalendar of Shepheardes (1604)

Good for the heart: Saffron, borage, laughing, joy, musk, cloves, galingale, nutmegs, the red rose, the violet, mace.

Evil for the heart: Beans, peas, leeks, garlic, onions, heaviness, anger, dread, too much business, travel, to drink cold water after labour, evil tidings.


-- quoted in the entry for September 12 in Charles Kightly's Perpetual Almanack of Folklore (Thames and Hudson 1987)

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