Note 422 — MENSIS MAIUS.
Reading edition
A. Lang, Myth, &c., ii. 265; Jevons, Roman Questions, Introd. p. lxxxvi; O. Crusius, Rhein. Mus. xxxix. 164 foll.; and especially Lobeck, Aglaoph. 251 foll. For superstitions of a similar kind attached to the mandrake and other plants see Sir T. Browne’s Vulgar Errors, bk. ii. ch. 6; Rhys, Celtic Mythology, p. 356 (the berries of the rowan).