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	Symbol of Hope the Shamrock by Marilyn Cameron Folklore and Legends
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Symbol of Hope
the Shamrock
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For the old Greeks and Romans, it was a magic plant protecting against snakes and scorpion stings. Regarded as highly sacred, the grass crown composed of Shamrock leaves and was esteemed a high mark of honour. As a "holy herb"...

Native to Europe, N. Africa, and the W. African islands (Macaronesiea), Shamrock or trifolium is the name applied to plants with leaves divided into three leaflets, including wood sorrel and various species of clover. A slender annual growing to 10", flowers yellow, up to 15 clustered in tiny stalked heads. Petals later turning dark brown.

According to Celtic legend, when St. Patrick landed at Wicklow in A.D. 433, he had difficulty explaining to the people of Ireland that Got was a sacred spirit, who created heaven and earth, and that the Trinity is contained in Unity. To illustrate his meaning, he plucked a Shamrock from the grass and cried: "Is it not possible for the Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost to be One, as for these three leaves to grow together on a single stalk?" Hence the name old name for the Shamrock, herba Trinitatis.

The word Shamrock is related to seamrog, which appears to be generic, being applied to many clovers, the black medick, the pimpernel and the wood sorrel, each one which has been claimed to have been the original Shamrock.

For the old Greeks and Romans, it was a magic plant protecting against snakes and scorpion stings. Regarded as highly sacred, it was largely employed in their religious rites and ceremonies. The grass crown composed of Shamrock leaves and was esteemed a mark of high honour. Spes, or Hope, was a beautiful child standing on tip-toe, a shamrock in her hand, and for the Irish too, the "immortal shamrock," or St. Patrick's cross, is an emblem of hope.

The Druids held the Shamrock in great esteem, because its leaf symbolized the three departments of nature - sea, earth, and heaven.

As a "holy herb" the Shamrock was considered disgusting to witches, and protected against all evil, worn alike by peasant and knight as a potent charm.

Pliny states that serpents are never seen upon the Shamrock and according to legend, St. Patrick drove all reptiles from the Emerald Isle. On St Patrick's day, 17th March, children had Shamrocks pinned to their sleeves, and when the social cup was pledged the ceremony of drowning the Shamrock was duly observed:

"For show me the true hearted son of old Erin,
Who loves not the land where the green Shamrock grows."

Marilyn Cameron lives in the beautiful West Highlands of Scotland. She settled in Glenelg in January 2000 after a busy decade all over Scotland teaching and writing for Community Theatre Arts. She has a Diploma in Theatre Arts, and qualifications in other things such as shorthand, creative writing, communications, english, art, stagecraft, stage management and other related subjects.

She currently manages two websites, where, at Folklore and Legends she writes about all the wonderful myths and legends from diverse cultures on all sorts of subjects from the myths behind the flowers in gardens to Scottish Seers, Amazonian warriors, Greeks,Celts,Teutonics - all sorts! At her other site she writes about All Theatre Arts at All Theatre Arts covering everything from juggling to dance and drama.

Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed;
but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel
for human deglutition.
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Author of Jane Eyre
Born April 21, 1816

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