Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1899 — Sacred Plant. [ARTICLE]

Sacred Plant.

The plant known as vervain, which Is not distinguished for Its beauty, and which grfrfra Nowadays utterly disregardt^ wa? ®? sacred to the Druids that they ' Only gathered it for their dlvlna£loHß when the great dog star arose, in order that neither sun nor moon should see the deed.