We will know what he really is — he shall not wear fern-seed, and walk among us invisible thus — what say you, ❋ Unknown (2008)
We steal as in a castle, cocksure; we have the receipt of fern-seed, we walk invisible. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Nay, by my faith, I think you are more beholding to the night than to fern-seed for your walking invisible. ❋ Unknown (2004)
“We have the receipt of fern-seed; we walk invisible.” ❋ Unknown (2003)
I might as well have "had the receipt of fern-seed and walked invisible" for all the attention I excited. ❋ Various (N/A)
Thus the magic fern-seed and other treasure-disclosing vegetables [292] are surrogates of the mandrake, and like it derive their magical properties directly or indirectly from the pearl. ❋ G. Elliot Smith (N/A)
Therefore I am forced to leave their part of the telling to Fancy, and you may believe or discredit as much or as little as you choose; only I am hoping that by this time you have acquired at least a sprinkling of fern-seed in your eyes. ❋ Ruth Sawyer (1925)
You may have forgotten that fern-seed is the most subtle of eye-openers known to Fancy; and that it enables you to see the things that have existed only in your imagination. ❋ Ruth Sawyer (1925)
Tyrolese peasants imagine that hidden treasures can be seen glowing like flame on Midsummer Eve, and that fern-seed, gathered at this mystic season, with the usual precautions, will help to bring the buried gold to the surface. ❋ Unknown (1922)
This view is confirmed by a German story in which a hunter is said to have procured fern-seed by shooting at the sun on Midsummer Day at noon; three drops of blood fell down, which he caught in a white cloth, and these blood-drops were the fern-seed. ❋ Unknown (1922)
Hence, when we consider that two great days for gathering the fabulous seed are Midsummer Eve and Christmasthat is, the two solstices (for Christmas is nothing but an old heathen celebration of the winter solstice) we are led to regard the fiery aspect of the fern-seed as primary, and its golden aspect as secondary and derivative. ❋ Unknown (1922)
Thus, on the principle of like by like, fern-seed is supposed to discover gold because it is itself golden; and for a similar reason it enriches its possessor with an unfailing supply of gold. ❋ Unknown (1922)
Thus it may be taken as probable that fern-seed is golden, because it is believed to be an emanation of the suns golden fire. ❋ Unknown (1922)
Sometimes the fern-seed is supposed to bloom on Christmas night, and whoever catches it will become very rich. ❋ Unknown (1922)
Now it is a property of this mythical fern-seed that whoever has it, or will ascend a mountain holding it in his hand on Midsummer Eve, will discover a vein of gold or will see the treasures of the earth shining with a bluish flame. ❋ Unknown (1922)
Thus in Bohemia it is said that on St. Johns Day fern-seed blooms with golden blossoms that gleam like fire. ❋ Unknown (1922)
Here the blood is clearly the blood of the sun, from which the fern-seed is thus directly derived. ❋ Unknown (1922)
But while the fern-seed is described as golden, it is equally described as glowing and fiery. ❋ Unknown (1922)
Now, if the mistletoe discovers gold, it must be in its character of the Golden Bough; and if it is gathered at the solstices, must not the Golden Bough, like the golden fern-seed, be an emanation of the suns fire? ❋ Unknown (1922)
In Styria they say that by gathering fern-seed on Christmas night you can force the devil to bring you a bag of money. ❋ Unknown (1922)
