Curiosities of Indo-European Tradition And Folk-Lore
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" Does not this lightning birth/' asks Dr. Kuhn, " also ex- plain why it was that, as Plutarch relates, men durst not swear by Dionysos under a roof, but only in the open air ? " The power of disordering the wits which is evinced by fern in Thuringia is ascribed in Aargau to the plantain or waybread, which is there called irrwur- zel, a name equivalent to irrkraut* Moreover, it is related of this plant by PaYacelsus, that its root is changed every seven years into a birdf From these data it is ...to be inferred that plantain is one of the forms in which lightning has assumed a vegetative existence, that it first came down to earth as a bird, and that its septennial metamorphosis is a return of that lightning-biinger to its former shape. It be- comes a question, therefore, of much interest, whether or not we can ascertain the bird's name ; but for the present, I fear, we must leave that point undecided.
The writer in the Quarterly Review, indeed, to whom we have already referred more than once, asserts that the bird is either the cuckoo or the hoopoe (German, Wiedhopf).
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
" Does not this lightning birth/' asks Dr. Kuhn, " also ex- plain why it was that, as Plutarch relates, men durst not swear by Dionysos under a roof, but only in the open air ? " The power of disordering the wits which is evinced by fern in Thuringia is ascribed in Aargau to the plantain or waybread, which is there called irrwur- zel, a name equivalent to irrkraut* Moreover, it is related of this plant by PaYacelsus, that its root is changed every seven years into a birdf From these data it is ...to be inferred that plantain is one of the forms in which lightning has assumed a vegetative existence, that it first came down to earth as a bird, and that its septennial metamorphosis is a return of that lightning-biinger to its former shape. It be- comes a question, therefore, of much interest, whether or not we can ascertain the bird's name ; but for the present, I fear, we must leave that point undecided.
The writer in the Quarterly Review, indeed, to whom we have already referred more than once, asserts that the bird is either the cuckoo or the hoopoe (German, Wiedhopf).
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