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Wormwood

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The tradition is that this plant sprang up in the track of the serpent as it writhed along the ground when driven out of Paradise.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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