ÉÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ» º º º ÛÛÛ º º Û ÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛ º º Û ÛÛ Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û º º Û Û ÛÛÛÛÛÛ Û Û Û Û ÛÛÛÛÛÛ THE DRUID º º Û ÛÛ Û ÛÛ Û Û Û Û Û º º ÛÛÛÛÛÛ Û ÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛ Û º º º ÈÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍͼ (have computer make trumpety sounds and all that stuff) DROOP THE DRUID"S GUIDE TOO HERBS AND FLOWERS Copyright 1994 Cainteanna na Luise This material may be distributed free provided all copies contain acreditation to either "Droop the Druid" or "Cainteanna na Luise" -------------------------------- There are many druidy uses for herbs and flowers. You can wear them in your hair, hang them over your door, do lots of stuff. And if you eat them some of them are very good for tummy-aches or other stuff but if you eat some of the others they kill you instaed. Floxglove - in Irish this is not named after foxes but after the P£ca. It is used in the tails to show how pretty girls are. Blackberry - very yummie but you should not not not ever pick any after Sow Win because the P£ca pisses on it then (some prude people will tell you that he just spits on it but that is a you-if-ism (if you believe it poo to you) but I will tell you the truth and that's what he does!) This means you have to be very careful when you are at the grocery store and buying jam or fruit juice that you know when the berries got picked because the dumb people who make the jam and fruit juice are not druids and they don't know about this stuff (altho they would if they just read everything I wrote!) and the little sign on the jar or bottle is not going to tell you if one of the ingreedy-ants is p£ca piss or not. Mugwort - this will keep people from beating you up to steal your wallet. Droop the Druid's Guide Too Herbs and Flowers p.2 Valarian - we Irish call this "bog rowan" because the leafs sort-of look like the leafs of a rowan. It is a very important druidy herb good for all kinds of stuff and cats (especially BLACK cats - remember that in Irealnd black cats are GOOD luck - see my brilliant expose-say about animals - and white cats are BAD luck, of course if you knmow what your druidy colours mean) like it too. Nettles - these sting you unless you use them in soup which is OK. Clover - not a druidy flower no matter HOW many leafs it has. The Irish touristy bored has gotten hold of it and they plaster one on every- thing that will hold still long enough like airplanes and bath towels and ashtrays and plastic anything and so on (this is because the REAL symbol of Ireland is the Harp but the government and Guiness say it belongs to them and nobody else can plaster it on stuff so the toursty bore has to use a dumb clover instead). Ruddy-damn-drum - a pretty red flower but a very nasty one because it is really from Africa nd the catlicks planted it all over Cary and now the woods in Killarney are full of it and it pushes out the REAL Irish flowers and poisons the deer. If you see one KILL IT! (You got to burn it by the roots!) Mistletoe - not not not a druidy plant. It never ever even lived in Ireland until some fake druids (who probably wore white) brought it to Ireland from England. That was around 1700 or so. REAL druids never use it!!! Camomile - in Irish it's name means "gentle hurley-stick". If you ever saw how the Irish play hurley you'd rather be hit over the head with some of this instead. It is also good for your tummy. Marywanna - you shouldn't use this unless you are in Arabia or some place where they let you do it or this nasty people will break all your doors and tear your books and computer apart looking for where you are hiding it. Dulse - a kind of seaweed. You eat it. Carrageen - another kind of seaweed. You can eat it but some people stuff mattresses with it. I suppose this is handy if you wake up in the middle of the night and are hungry but it's too cold to get out of bed. Woad - name in Irish means blue. We did not not not dye our skin with this stuff. That was the Picks. we use it to dye capes. blue is a very druidy colour. Sheeps eat it but people don't. Droop the Druid's Guide Too Herbs and Flowers p.3 (as in x) St Johnswort - the name was stolen by the catlicks, in Old Irsih the REAL name was "new life". If somebody cuts you with a sword you put this on the wound. In other places some people use it on sunburn but Ireland does have this problem. Rain doesn't burn you not even if it's acid. Vervain - in Irish its name means "birthing a big group". Why is just one of those misty things. It is good for lots of stuff and will bring you good luck if you keep some around. Rose - not a druidy flower. The English had lots of wars about them which just shows you how different people are. WE never had wars over flowers (almost everything else but never never never flowers). Wolfbane - planting this next to your door keeps away bad fairies (but only the magic kind, the other kind if they're bad you have to watch out for by yourself). This is one of the ones you should not not not eat. Don't do it! In fact don't even TOUCH one and then suck your thumb because even that little bit wil make you very very very sick. Yarrow - the Irish name for this is "earth father". If you have a fever this will help make it better. China people who don't have any money throw sticks of this around to fins out how they can get some. Gorse - these are yellow and have lots of ouchy thorns and they are sort-of like ruddy-damn-drums except these are Irish and they try to take over all the hills but don't kill all of them because they're Irish. Mushroom - is not a flower and is not druidy and fairies do NOT NOT NOT sit on them (the one kind is too big and the other kind doesn't either). Some of these are supposed to be magic but it is realy "majik" which is spelled that way so people know it's not druidy magic because the ones in Ireland aren't maGiK but we use them in soup. ******************************