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A malevolent tree? (2)

by F_Meignant

Should I dare a translation...?That’s indirect, through a (bad) French one, since I don’t speak German…:Alder King:Who’s riding so late, by night and wind ?A father and his childIn his arms he holds him tightKeeps him warm and protects himWhy are you fearfully hiding your face my son?Father, don’t you see the Alder King?The Alder King with his crown and train?It’s only a mist trail, my sonCome, dear child, let us go togetherI’ll play nice games with youSo many flowers adorn the banks of the riverSo many golden clothes has my motherFather, father don’t you hearWhat the Alder King whispers?Be quiet, stay quiet, my sonIn the dead leaves the wind shiversCome with me, beautiful boy, don’t you want?My daughters will take good care of youThey are leading the nightly danceThey will cradle you and sing and dance for youFather, father, don’t you see nowThe Alder King’s daughters dancing in the...

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A malevolent tree?

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Scientific name: Alnus glutinosa. English: Alder tree.French: Aulne, Vergne.German: Schwarze Erle.Dutch: Zwarte Els.Belongs to the family of the BETULACEAE. Marshes, river banks.The alder tree is quite a nice small one yet it has a bad reputation?Frequents disreputable places such as marshlands or peat bogs. Humid places full of legends, evil mists, frogs, newts and water grass-snakes?More: when you cut it, its wood becomes red like blood... Exposed flesh.For the ancient Greeks, it was the ?Tree of the Dead?, inhabited by Cronos, Zeus? father and a famous children-eater...For the Gauls, it was one of the 7 trees of the ?Holy Coppice? together with birch, willow, oak, holly, hazel and apple tree. Alder was symbolizing 2 opposite elements: fire and water?A wizard using a wand made of its wood was supposed to raise the dead to life?His wood was used for piling (London Bridge and Rialto at...

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Ancolie, mélancolie...

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Scientific name: Aquilegia vulgaris. English: ColumbineFrench: AncolieGerman: Gemeine AkeleiDutch: AkeleiBelongs to the family of the RANUNCULACEAE. Grows in meadows and edges.The French name, Ancolie, rhymes with melancholy. Such a name combined with such a sophisticated appearance necessarily make a flower loved by artists…Definitely too, a plant linked to mind. Sad or sick mind.In the “language of flowers”, columbine symbolizes madness.And the traditional hat worn by the court jester (“le fou du roi”) represents its flower…It’s true that columbine’s flower really has a crazy shape, with its petals wearing a kind of long bent tube called spur and full of nectar. A bar for flies and all kind of insects.Maybe it’s name “aquilegia” comes from the shape of this spur... like an eagle’s claws (in Latin, eagle is “aquila”)…The claws of madness? Medieval miniaturists (especially Jean...

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Jean-Jacques' flower...

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Scientific name: Vinca. Two species: the big one (Vinca major) and the small one (Vinca minor).English: Lesser and larger periwinkles.French: Petite et grande pervenches. German: Kleines and grosses Immergrün.Dutch: Maagdenpalm and grote maagdelpalm.Family of the APOCYNACEAE. Forests and bushes. Simple green glossy leaves. Creeping on the ground.In former times, bunches of periwinkles were offered to young girls of good reputation when they got married… or put on their graves after they died. Symbol of fidelity.When I was a child, my grand-mother used to tell me not to grope around in bushes where periwinkles grow : they are supposed to live together with vipers.This dictum “de bonne femme” probably has a phonetic origin: the similarity between the two French words “viPERE” and “PERvenche”.Nevertheles, Pline the Old wrote that periwinkles were good against snakebites… perhaps only...

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