Blinding the plant (1)

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CT 17 19.i.17-24:
(Look for) a gourd which grows alone in the plain; when the Sun has gone down, cover your head with a kerchief, cover the gourd too, draw a magic circle with flour around it, and in the morning, before the Sun comes out, pull it up from its location, take its root …

Pliny the Elder, Naturalia Historia 24.62:
The plant called selago is gathered without iron with the right hand, thrust under the tunic through the left arm-hole, as though the gatherer were thieving.

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CT 17 19.i.17-24
Pliny the Elder, Naturalia Historia 24.62

Bibliography

Amar Annus

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