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The Greek doctor Dioscorides named aglaophotis as a member of the peony family, Paeoniaceae. [1] It has been speculated that the species Paeonia officinalis, the European peony, [2] is the source of aglaophotis, but there is too little evidence for this theory to be proven.
Among Serbian names are many apotropaic names (zaštitna imena, "protective names"), such as Vuk ("wolf") (and its many derivatives) and Staniša [39] ("stone"). Historical Chinese given names sometimes had apotropaic meanings, such as in the case of Huo Qubing (霍 去病, "Qubing" meaning "away with illness"), or Xin Qiji (辛 棄疾, "Qiji ...
Various folk cultures and traditions assign symbolic meanings to plants. Although these are no longer commonly understood by populations that are increasingly divorced from their rural traditions, some meanings survive. In addition, these meanings are alluded to in older pictures, songs and writings.
A piece of Devil's club hung over a doorway is said to ward off evil. The plant is harvested and used in a variety of ways, most commonly as an oral tea in traditional settings, but also poultices and ointments. [8] Native Americans also dried and powdered the bark for use as a deodorant [9] and used the mashed berries to clean hair. [10]
In its native Himalayas the plant is best known under its Kumaoni name भूतकेशी (bhutkeshi), meaning ghost's hair [2] - in reference to the fibres derived from dead petioles surrounding the top of the rootstock, which are traditionally used to ward off the evil spirits known as bhuts - and it is under this name that the dried root is traded locally.
The knowledge of how to find herbs in nature and make them into teas and tonics continued in African American communities. The remedy most commonly used in Black communities in northeast Missouri to ward off a cold was carrying a small bag of Ferula assafoetida; the folk word is asfidity, a plant from the fennel family. [206]
Others say that the command to offer incense was to ward off evil spirits and demons, [11] while still others say that the purpose was to atone for the "evil tongue," spoken by one person against another. [12] The Zohar (Ki Tisa) states that the purpose of burning the holy incense was to mitigate and render impending judgments less severe.
The name and tradition are derived from an ancient Chinese custom called Renri which means the day humans were born, whereby each of the opening days of the first lunar month were assigned to a particular creature or animal, which it was forbidden to kill or lay harm to on that day: thus the first seven days of the month were Chicken Day, Dog ...