fairies' horse

noun

ragweed

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nounfairies' horse (plural fairies' horses)

plural fairies' horses

  1. ragweed

    As we all know, witches ride through the air on a broom, but sometimes their means of locomotion was a bulrush, a branch of thorn, mullein stalks, cornstalk, or ragweed, called fairies' horse in Ireland.

    1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 267
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