{"id":4879,"date":"2014-08-21T11:41:52","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T15:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/?p=4879"},"modified":"2014-08-21T11:44:58","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T15:44:58","slug":"plant-lore-for-the-masses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/2014\/08\/21\/plant-lore-for-the-masses\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant-lore for the masses"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired\u00a0<\/em>Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection<\/a>.<\/em>\"KIC_Image_0002\"<\/p>\n

Aconitum also known as wolfsbane is a particularly poisonous plant that grows mainly in the Northern hemisphere. \u00a0Apparently it was historically used to kill wolves thus the reference to the plant as wolfsbane. \u00a0The image above is from La Leyenda de las plantas :\u00a0mitos, tradiciones, creencias y teor\u00edas relativos a los vegetales, <\/em><\/a>which displays the myth about how this poisonous plant was formed\u00a0according to the Greeks.\u00a0 The accompanying text which is in Spanish appears to state that in Hecate’s garden the foam from the mouth of Cerberus fell on the plant and caused it to become a poisonous.<\/p>\n

La Leyenda\"KIC_Image_0004\"<\/a> de las plantas<\/em> is a book that primarily relates legends, myths, folklore, and traditions regarding plants. \u00a0There are images throughout the text that illustrate plants in alphabetical order usually according to region and their connection to a specific folklore.\u00a0 The Rose of Bahakavali is presumably an Indian legend related to roses.<\/p>\n

The volume also includes a chapter on animal folklore and in one section the text explains about the legendary animals native to the Americas including the eagle, buffalo, vampire bat, jaguar, caiman, and of course the hippo.<\/p>\n

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La Leyenda de las plantas :\u00a0mitos, tradiciones, creencias y teor\u00edas relativos a los vegetales \/\u00a0Carlos Mendoza ; obra adornada con preciosos cromotipograbados… del reputado artista Luis Labarta…<\/a>\u00a0Barcelona :\u00a0Establ. Tipolitogr\u00e1fico Editorial de Ram\u00f3n Molinas,\u00a0[ca. 1880] can be found in Widener’s collection using Hollis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Alison Harris, Santo Domingo Project Manager for contributing this post.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired\u00a0Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Aconitum also known as wolfsbane is a particularly poisonous plant that grows mainly in the Northern hemisphere. \u00a0Apparently it was historically used to kill wolves thus the reference to the plant as wolfsbane. \u00a0The image above is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4490,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[72741],"tags":[7327,72720,72679,72659],"class_list":["post-4879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-widener-library","tag-folklore","tag-julio-mario-santo-domingo-collection","tag-myth","tag-plants"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5TUly-1gH","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4879"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4911,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4879\/revisions\/4911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}