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Show Sun Advocat, Price, Utah Wednesday, December 23. 198 Holly surrounded by superstition Tis the season to deck the halls, but before you bring home boughs of holly you ought to know some of 'M and superstition surrounding that tough, prickly-leaveplant, acbad weather, cording to the current issue of inhabitants from witchcraft. and poison National Wildlife magazine. Medieval English physicians Since the days of the ancient Celts, magical powers have been thought holly berries could cure ascribed to holly, the National colic, but patients who followed their doctors orders sometimes Wildlife Federation died from the violent vomiting the holds that And one legend reports. weather conditions at the time berries induced. Holly leaves, Christmas holly is brought in will however, are harmless when determine who runs the household roasted and brewed for tea. The brew was often drunk by South the husband or the wife. American dates a Indians, who thought it decoration as use Hollys back to the Druids, a religious gave them extra strength. The subject of all these legends order that thrived in in more than 200 varieties, comes These and France. England some that lose their the considered including woodsy priests autumn. Nearly two each leaves leaves green eternally plants proof that the sun would never dozen species are found in the U.S., desert them, the magazine ex- the most common of which is American holly. This variety once plains. The early Romans extended this grew thickly in forests throughout tradition by hanging holly indoors the eastern U.S., but now only a during the feast of Saturnalia, a fraction of those wild stands festival celebrating the remain, according to National return of longer days. Early Wildlife. Christian converts also adopted Like other varieties, American this ritual by designating holly trees are single-sexeOnly Christmas Eve as templa the female plants produce the exornata temples are scarlet berries, and not until they adorned. It was forbidden to are at least 8 years old. The berries bring any greens into the home are food for mockingbirds, before that night. thrushes, robins, bluebirds and Because of this ban on early many other animals. decorating, many Christians Beneath its rough gray bark, believed that bringing holly into a house too soon would cause family holly wood is chalky white and hard as rock, says National quarrels and misfortune. Once Wildlife. prized by As Christianity spread, so did for its incabinetmakers one In the holly legends. tale, plant the destructible plant is quality, was said to have had white berries a now nuisance considered until the Nativity. Then a visitor broke off a branch of a holly tree because its tough enough to break a chainsaw. growing outside the Bethlehem stable and offered it to the Christ Most of the holly boughs at Child, the baby pricked his finger Christmastime come from English on the sharply pointed leaves. holly, which grows wild throughout Horribly embarrassed, the holly much of southern Europe. It was blushed and its berries have imported into the Pacific Norremained red ever since. thwest by a group of British imAnother holly superstition was migrants and now about 1,000 promoted by Pliny, the early acres in Washington and Oregon Roman naturalist. He asserted are used to cultivate the plant and that a wild animal could be sub fill Christmas decorating needs. the history d, berry-bearin- g from the So mi (Sdwcote r. Hi r mid-wint- Z N LL & Leonard Martin Advertising Manager Scott Lloyd Staff Writer Don Vetter Staff Writer Al Hartmann PhotographerStaff Writer Kristen D. 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