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The Popular Religion and Folk-Lore of Northern India, Vol. 1 (of 2)

Note 29 — Chapter I · THE GODLINGS OF NATURE.

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And Laertes speaks of the poison “collected from all simples that have virtue under the moon.”29 Hence the belief that the moon has a sympathetic influence over vegetation. Tusser30 advised the peasant,—

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