tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743102750721348863.post7932973295915143777..comments2024-03-28T06:30:58.474-07:00Comments on Old European culture: Poppiesoldeuropeanculturehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07880222013739472782noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743102750721348863.post-91679361002261956392021-05-07T01:04:57.763-07:002021-05-07T01:04:57.763-07:00Also from West-Flanders, I still know the stories ...Also from West-Flanders, I still know the stories of my grandmother who called this flower sleeping ball (slaapbollen) when She Was Young they used to put this Poppy into the last bottle of milk, or they boiled the milk with the Poppy?of the little children before they went to sleep. I don't know exactly anymore. They also filled pillow's with poppy's for People who couldn't Sleep very well. What i want to say is that there was not a great taboo over it and btw they grow everywhere overhere, there even used to be a law that you had to get rid of them now this law is gone due to ww1 tourist promotion...woutervzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10377811588394522392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743102750721348863.post-50990988589813888222020-05-25T06:24:38.547-07:002020-05-25T06:24:38.547-07:00Thanks very much for this info Sarah. This is very...Thanks very much for this info Sarah. This is very very interesting...oldeuropeanculturehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07880222013739472782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743102750721348863.post-25491331032076082682020-05-25T01:51:41.963-07:002020-05-25T01:51:41.963-07:00In Flanders the local name for poppies (the red on...In Flanders the local name for poppies (the red ones, not the opium species) is Donderblomme, literally thunderflower. (In Wallonia it's called tonnoire). The will close when rain/thunder comes. An old ritual was to gather red poppies in summer and make bouquets of them. These bouquets then got blessings from a priest. When a thunderstorm approached, they would burn the poppies on the altar of the church to ward of the damaging thunderstorm. (Beginnen donderwolken op te doemen, stook dan vlug uw donderbloemen = When clouds with thunder approach, burn then your poppies fast)<br /><br />So poppies assiociated with thundergods doesn't sound like a strange idea to me.Sarahnoreply@blogger.com