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rods were made from both the black and the white thorn. Walter Kelly says,
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The wood of the thorn (ramnos) was used by the Greeks for the drilling stick of their pyreia (or fire-producing chark), and it was held by them to be prophylactic against magic, as the white thorn was by the Romans, among whom it was used for marriage torches.
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History of Somersetshire,
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The Miraculous Espousal of Mary and Joseph, the blossoming of the rod of the latter is the sign that he is the destined husband of the former. When the feeble old man unwillingly appears before the