THE SONG OF THE MALLOW FAIRY
I am Mallow; here sit I
Watching all the passer-by,
Though my leaves are torn and tattered,
Dust-besprinkled, mud-bespattered,
See, my seeds are fairy cheeses,
These are what an will munch
For his supper or his lunch.
Fairy housewives, going down
To their busy market-town
Hear me wheedling: "Lady, please,
Pretty lady, buy a cheese!"
And I never find it matters
That I'm nicknamed Rags-and-Tatters,
For they buy my fairy cheeses,
Freshest, finest, fairy cheess!
December is the last month of the year. To me it is
like a closeing of the past, and preparing for the
future. Come let us take a look at the flower and
the birth stone!
The flower is the Narcissus, which I thought would
have been the poinsettia, but it is not. The stone
is Turquois!
Sandy is real anxious to show us what the faeries
enjoy in this letter. For it is the Mushroons!?
There are so many different type of mushrooms that
Sandy will give just the highlights...............
Toadstools or as we call them mushrooms are
associated with fairies. A circle of taller, darker
grass within a ring of toadstools, sometimes
accompanied by a ring of dark earth, was called a
Fairy Ring.
Other names for this phenomenon were Fairy Circles,
Fairy Dances, Fairy Courts, Hag's Tracks and
Sorcerer's Rings. They were believed to be caused by
the path of dancing fairies, or elves,
fire-breathing dragons, lightning strike or witches.
Stepping into a fairy ring could bring good or bad
luck, cause or cure illness.
A fairy ring in a field beside a house was believed
to bring good fortune. Harm was believed to come to
a cow that stepped within the circle or ate its
grass. It was also thought that you would become
enchanted if you entered a ring during a full
moon....................
Fairy circles can live for hundreds of years.
MAGNOLIA-----------------Nobility
MARIGOLD-----------------Cruelty, Grief, Jealousy
MISTLETOE----------------Kiss me, Affection, To
Surmount Difficulties, Sacred Plant of India
MONKSHOOD----------------Beware, A Deadly Foe is
Near
MOSS---------------------Maternal Love, Charity
MYRTLE-------------------Love, Hebrew Emblem of
Marriage
The Herbs for the letter M are!
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Marjoram--------------------- is a highly perfumed
herb with thick trusses of dainty white or purple
flowers which make it a highly decorative herb that
is suitable for the flower garden.
Mint-----(Mentha)------------The common types of
mint are peppermint, pennyroyal, crinkle-leafed
spearmint, spearmint, and applemint.
Mustard-----------------------Brown mustard has a
mass of small, four petaled yellow flowers that form
a dense carpet over the fields where they grow. It
originates from china, India and Poland.
WHEW! This was rather a busy page.....I need to do
an errand for my Mother, so the next page will be
done by another very dear friend of mine
Evelyn.......But, we call her Evy for short.
So, I will catch up with you in a page!
