Hypericum perforatum · Probable
St. John's Wort
Hypericum perforatum
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
Cross Source
protective St. John's wort customs
This is a folklore record, not a medical or physical-use recommendation.
2 attestations · high confidence
Explicit Source
driving-away custom
Banishing is used here in the narrow sense of the source's driving-away custom.
1 attestation · high confidence
Reviewed sources
- T. F. Thiselton-Dyer, The Folk-Lore of Plants (1889)Wellcome Collection
- Richard Folkard, Plant Lore, Legends, and Lyrics (1884)Wellcome Collection