Sometimes harebells (Campanula rotundifolia) are called Scottish bluebells although they grow over most of Britain are not the same family as the native English bluebells.   The delicate blue bells flutter in the breeze on thin wiry stems and flower from mid summer in short grass.  They have many connections with belief in magic and supposedly witches were known to turn themselves into hares to avoid detection and would hide among them and use juice of a crushed flower in the spell to make them fly.  A patch of harebells is a favourite home for fairies and if one was to walk through them the fairies would cast spells on the perpetrator.  I wonder what spell might have been cast on me.

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