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Fairies and Plant Lore


ALDER
Charm against evil fairies.

ASH
Placing ash berries in a cradle prevents the child from being traded for a changeling.

BIRCH
"On a switch of birch was written the first Ogham inscription in Ireland, namely seven B's, as a warning to Lug son of Ethliu, to wit, 'Thy wife will be seven times carried away from you into fairyland or elsewhere, unless birch be her overseer." - Robert Graves, The White Goddess

BLACKBERRY
It was taboo to eat blackberries in Celtic countries à cause des feés, because of the fairies.

BLACKTHORN
Held sacred by fairies. The Luantishees are blackthorn fairies.

BLUEBELL
Fields of bluebells are dangerously enchanted by fairies, who are called to their midnight dances and revels by the sound of bluebells ringing.

CLOVER
A four-leaf clover can break fairy spells. Wearing a four-leaf clover in your hat gives you the power to see invisible fairies.

COWSLIP


DOGWOOD
Pixy Pears is one name for the tree's fruit.

ELDER
It was a British belief that placing a child in an elder-wood cradle could cause it to be pinched black and blue by fairies.

FAIRY FLOWERS


FERN
Ferns are favored by pixies, who can sometimes be found near them.

FLAX
Purging Flax is also called Fairy Flax.

FOXGLOVE
GRASS
Small fairies ride bundles of grass as horses.

MUSHROOMS and TOADSTOOLS - FAIRY CIRCLES
OAK
In British folklore ancient, hollow trees (called bull oaks in England, bell oaks in Scotland and Ireland) are trees that stood in old sacred groves. They were often believed to be the home of spirits, elves, fairies or demons. You were supposed to turn your coat or cloak inside-out to neutralize their magic: "Turn your clokes

For fairy folks
Are in old oakes."
PEAR
Japanese pears are called Fairies' Fire in the Language of Flowers.

PRIMROSE


RAGWORT
Ragwort stems are used as horses by tine fairies.

ST. JOHN'S WORT

THISTLES
Pixies' Gloves is another name for thistles.

WILLOW:
The wind in the willows is the whisperings of a fairy in the ear of a poet.



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