1. If white flowers occur in garden foxgloves there will be a death in the family [Holbeach, Lincolnshire, January 2004].

2. From my paternal grandparents, Joseph Beach (b. 1856), m. Jane (b. 1860) …
Snomper – or snowper (rhymes with cow) – foxglove. A favourite admonition to a noisy child: ‘Shut thee chops; thee bist like a bumble bee in a snowper.’ A favourite occupation in summer was to trap a bee in in a foxglove flower to hear it buzz angrily!
I have now passed my three score years and ten … Nectar was sucked from foxglove bells [Cinderford, Gloucestershire, November 1993].

3. Foxglove – popdock [St Ervan, Cornwall, February 1992].

4. Foxglove leaves were placed in children’s shoes and worn thus for a year, as a cure for scarlet fever – in Shropshire [Haynes, Bedfordshire, August 1984].

5. Picking foxgloves was unlucky and they were absolutely forbidden inside the house as this gave witches/the devil access to the house. Staffordshire (Tutbury), 1950s [Natural History Museum, London, May 1982].

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