Children’s games and pastimes which use plants. Traditional times for sowing and harvesting crops, and practices associated with the cultivation of plants. Sayings, riddles, tales and legends concerning plants. Plants and plant materials used in traditional customs and religious festivals. Traditional beliefs concerning plants (for example, the belief that certain flowers cause bad luck if taken indoors). Therefore information is sought concerning. current and remembered) beliefs and practices. Although previously published material is of interest, the emphasis is on contemporary (i.e. The Archive covers all aspects of the folklore and traditional uses of plants, including fungi and other organisms traditionally studied by botanists. It currently holds some 9,260 items of information from approximately 3,200 contributors, and a large number of press-cuttings, off-prints, photographs and other material.
– collecting traditional uses and folklore of plants Please share your memories and send them Plant-lore Archive has grown from the Folklore Society’s ‘Survey of Unlucky Flowers’ which was conducted in the early 1980s.
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