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Hypericum perforatum · Probable

St. John's Wort

Hypericum perforatum

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Antiquarian natural-history illustration of St. John's Wort, shown as one centered specimen

Common St. John's wort as the probable identity in the nineteenth-century folklore collections.

Profile research status

This stable record is still in evidence review. Its current identity, cultural scope, image, and direct source records are available here; a complete history, myth, worship, iconography, relationship, and reception profile is not yet claimed.

Direct connections and evidence

IntentionProtection

Cross Source

protective St. John's wort customs

This is a folklore record, not a medical or physical-use recommendation.

2 attestations · high confidence

  • T. F. Thiselton-Dyer, The Folk-Lore of PlantsFirst edition · Wellcome Collection · European customs collected in nineteenth-century folklore surveys · European St. John's Eve and plant-folklore traditions · Book The Folk-Lore of Plants · Chapter V · Section Plants in Witchcraft · Page 78
  • Richard Folkard, Plant Lore, Legends, and LyricsFirst edition · Wellcome Collection · European customs collected in nineteenth-century folklore surveys · European St. John's Eve and plant-folklore traditions · Book Plant Lore, Legends, and Lyrics · Chapter St. John's Plants · Page 52
IntentionBanishing

Explicit Source

driving-away custom

Banishing is used here in the narrow sense of the source's driving-away custom.

1 attestation · high confidence

  • Richard Folkard, Plant Lore, Legends, and LyricsFirst edition · Wellcome Collection · Custom recorded in an 1884 folklore compilation · European plant folklore · Book Plant Lore, Legends, and Lyrics · Chapter St. John's Plants · Page 52

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