The Antiquary Volume 36 book

The Antiquary Volume 36. Edward Walford

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Author: Edward Walford
Page Count: 76 pages
Published Date: 06 Mar 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781130500998
File size: 13 Mb
Download Link: The Antiquary Volume 36
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...to a still more widely-spread and much older belief--the tradition, namely, that it was upon an elder-tree that the traitor Judas hanged himself. This curious notion is very old. It is mentioned in the vision of Piers Plowman. Sir John Mandeville, in his Voyaige and Travaile (1356), declares that when he was at Jerusalem he saw, close by the Pool of Siloam, "the elder-tree on which Judas hanged himself for despair, when he sold and betrayed our Lord." Shakespeare, in Love's Labour's Lost, makes Biron say, "Judas was hanged on an elder"; and Ben Jonson, in Every Man out of His Humour, says, "Our gardens will prosper the better when they have in them not one of these elders, whereupon so many covetous J udases hang themselves." According to another legend it was a fig-tree upon which the traitor perished. A certain fungus which is found only upon stumps of elder is commonly called Jew's ear; but this is a corruption of an earlier name, Judas-ear, and of course the traditional explanation is that the fungus first appeared upon the elder at the time of Judas' death. This Judas-ear was once in great repute as a remedy for coughs. An old rhyme says: For a coughe take Judas Eare, Eke the paring of a Peare: And drinke this without feare If you will have remedie. The elder-tree was regarded as sacred by the heathen peoples of Northern Europe. There is a Danish tradition that its branches are inhabited by a female elf who never leaves her hiding-place save between midnight and dawn. One of George Borrow's ballads treats of this legend. It begins: Though tall the oak, and firm its stem, Though far abroad its boughs are spread, Though high the poplar lifts its head, I have no song for them. A theme more bright, more bright would be The win...

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