Curious Customs and Beliefs in Modern

10 pages in this part of The Honey-Makers.

TIMES THE bees must still be told of a death in the family in many parts of Europe and in certain out-of-the-way places in our own country…

It is a widespread superstition that bees must not be bought with money but must be exchanged for some product of nature, though in some…

In Cornwall the people call "Browny, Browny," when their bees swarm, believing the goblin Browny will prevent the bees from leaving.

In Tennyson's "Foresters" when Robin offers to caress her, Marian says, - "Quiet, good Robin, quiet!

On the other hand, the sudden settling of bees upon the weapons of Duke Leopold III. of Austria, on the day before the battle of Sempach…

Curious Customs and Beliefs "Among those who were present at the discovery was Jean Jacques Chifflet, at that time physician to the…

This was well known to the ancients and concerning it Aristotle says: --- "Bees discover the approach of cold weather and of rain; this is…

A better accredited account is that of the English beekeeper Wildman, who himself explains the secret. "When under a strong impression of…

There is a European plant, variously called Melia, Melissa, Melittis, Melianthus and Honey-blossom, though probably it is Melissa…

The College of Bees at Oxford University, according to Butler's "Feminin Monarchi," was "so called by the founder in the statutes," and he…