52. HELIOTROPE (SUN-FLOWER) A MEANS TO PREVENT CALUMNIATION. The virtues of this plant are miraculous. If it be collected in the sign of the lion, in the month of August, and wrapped up in a laurel leaf together with the tooth of a wolf. Whoever carries this about him, will never be addressed harshly by […]
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