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Language of flowers. Floriography ( language of flowers) is a means of cryptological communication through the use or arrangement of flowers. Meaning has been attributed to flowers for thousands of years, and some form of floriography has been practiced in traditional cultures throughout Europe, Asia, and Africa.
Harry Potter is a series of seven fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling. The novels chronicle the lives of a young wizard, Harry Potter, and his friends, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley, all of whom are students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The main story arc concerns Harry's conflict with Lord Voldemort, a ...
In the Harry Potter universe, moly is a powerful plant that can be eaten to counteract enchantments. [citation needed] In John Lyly's play Gallathea, Diana instructs her nymphs to "think love like Homer's moly, a white leaf and a black root, a fair show, and a bitter taste." [17]
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry ( / ˈhɒɡwɔːrts /) is a fictional boarding school of magic for students aged eleven to eighteen. It is the primary setting for the first six books in the Harry Potter series of novels by J. K. Rowling, and also serves as a major setting in the Wizarding World universe. [ 3]
Datura stramonium is an erect, annual, freely branching herb that forms a bush up to 60 to 150 cm (2 to 5 ft) tall. [10] [11] [12] The root is long, thick, fibrous, and white. The stem is stout, erect, leafy, smooth, and pale yellow-green to reddish purple in color. The stem forks off repeatedly into branches and each fork forms a leaf and a ...
In fiction. Audrey Jr.: a man-eating plant in the 1960 film The Little Shop of Horrors. Audrey II: a singing, fast-talking alien plant with a taste for human blood in the stage show Little Shop of Horrors and the 1986 film of the same name. Bat-thorn: a plant, similar to wolfsbane, offering protection against vampires in Mark of the Vampire.
In the Harry Potter novels, holly is used as the wood in Harry's wand. [48] In some traditions of Wicca, the Holly King is one of the faces of the Sun God. He is born at midsummer and rules from Mabon to Ostara. [citation needed] In the Irish language, the words mac cuilinn mean 'son of holly'. Common anglicized forms of this arose; last names ...
British. House. Gryffindor. Born. 31 July 1980. Harry James Potter is a fictional character in the Harry Potter series of novels by J. K. Rowling. The plot of the seven-book series chronicles seven years in the life of the orphan Harry, who, on his eleventh birthday, learns he is a wizard. He attends Hogwarts, a school of magic, where he ...