B: Of Druids, Plants and Conjure: "Plant Lore, Legends and Lyrics" (1884)

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Quit a interesting find. Surly this Lebor will keep the Druid Herbalist and Conjurer happly busy for some time.
TDK

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The Druids professed to know the secrets of many magical plants which they gathered
with mysterious and occult rites. The Vervain, Selago, Mistletoe,
Oak, and Rowan were all said by these ancient priests and law
givers to be possessed of supernatural properties ; and remnants
of the old belief in their magical powers are still extant.

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Druids exorcised evil spirits with Mistletoe and Vervain,
and sorcerers and wise women used St. John's Wort and other
plants to ward off demons and thunderbolts

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The Druids, besides being priests, prophets, and legislators,
were also physicians ; they were acquainted, too, with the means of
producing trances and ecstacies, and as one of their chief medical
appliances they made use of the Mistletoe, which they gathered at
appointed times with certain solemn ceremonies, and considered it
as a special gift of heaven. This plant grew on the Oak, the sacred
tree of the Celts and Druids ; it was held in the highest reverence,
and both priests and people then regarded it as divine. To this
day the Welsh call Pren-awr—the celestial tree—
" The mystic Mistletoe,
Which has no root, and cannot grow
Or prosper but by that same tree
It clings to.'
The sacred Oak itself was thought to possess certain magical
properties in evoking the spirit of prophecy : hence we find the
altars of the Druids were often erected beneath some venerated
Oak-tree in the sombre recesses of the sacred grove ; and it was
under the shadow of such trees that the ancient Germans offered
up their holy sacrifices, and their inspired bards made their propnetic
utterances. The Greeks had their prophetic Oaks that
delivered the oracles of Jupiter in the sacred grove of Dodona—
" Such honours famed Dodona's grove acquired,
As justly due to trees by heaven inspired;
When once her Oaks did fate's decrees reveal,
And taught wise men truths future to foretel."—Rapin.

The Arcadians attributed another magical power to the Oak,
for they believed that by stirring water with an Oaken bough rain
could be brought from the clouds.
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[Arcadians, an ancient Greek tribe of the namesake region. Residents of Arcadia, Greece]

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