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My Good Babushka

(2,710 posts) Fri Apr 25, 2014, 05:56 AM Apr 2014

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Fern seed

It was believed that fern seed was invisible, and if anyone could gather and wear this seed he would be invisible, too. To make it more difficult, fern seed could only be gathered on Midsummer's Eve at midnight if you wanted to maintain its powers of invisibility.

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Fern seed (Original Post) My Good Babushka Apr 2014 OP

That explains it! Scruffy Rumbler Apr 2014 #1

Not to be a nit-picker, but... GoCubsGo Apr 2014 #2

I know that and you know that My Good Babushka Apr 2014 #3

Don't mind me. GoCubsGo Apr 2014 #4

Scruffy Rumbler

(961 posts)

1. That explains it!

Reply to My Good Babushka (Original post)

Fri Apr 25, 2014, 09:49 AM

Apr 2014

It was 12:01 when I gathered last year!

GoCubsGo

(32,078 posts)

2. Not to be a nit-picker, but...

Reply to My Good Babushka (Original post)

Fri Apr 25, 2014, 10:34 AM

Apr 2014

Ferns don't have seeds. They have spores. Can't have seeds if you don't have flowers, and ferns don't produce flowers.

My Good Babushka

(2,710 posts)

3. I know that and you know that

Reply to GoCubsGo (Reply #2)

Fri Apr 25, 2014, 12:03 PM

Apr 2014

but people in medieval England did not know that.

GoCubsGo

(32,078 posts)

4. Don't mind me.

Reply to My Good Babushka (Reply #3)

Fri Apr 25, 2014, 12:14 PM

Apr 2014

Things are flying right past me today.

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