bollan bane

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 1.09 in modern English

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"[…] at the feet of the monk[,] he dropped iron, salt and bollan bane."
"Members of the House of Keys, which makes the island's laws, are very much involved, and the official instruction says the officials should all wear bollan bane. This is not some Dark Age clothing but – and it gets more J K Rowling-ish the more you look into all this – but^([sic]) a plant called mugwort which is Manx's own way of warding off evil spirits."

From Manx bollan bane (“white wort”), from bollan (“herb, wort”) + bane (“white”); compare Scottish Gaelic bàn.

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