The belief, especially found in France and England, that royalty had special supernormal and god-like powers, including that the mere touch of royalty could cure various ailments, especially scrofula or the “King’s Evil,” a nasty looking but rarely-fatal disease of the lymph nodes associated with tuberculosis.
Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Devin Hunter, author of a number of books, including Modern Witch, Crystal Magic for the Modern Witch, and the new Houseplant HortOCCULTure.
Monstera are a genus of about fifty plants that are...