Folklore

It simply wouldn’t be possible to write about the folklore around garlic without mentioning vampires, so here we go! Throughout the ages and before it had been popularised by television and movies, garlic was thought to contain evil-repelling properties, though this was not exclusive to the evil of werewolves and vampires. Garlic was placed above doors in order to ward away the evil eye, wicked witches, the horns of a bull and even the black plague. It was also once thought that garlic had the power to keep jealous nymphs away from pregnant ladies and engaged maidens. One religious text even claimed that garlic grew in the footprints of Satan as he left the Garden of Eden.