🟩 The Puritans called fennel the "meeting" seed because they often chewed it during long church services. Similarly, many poor Catholics ate fennel seeds to ward off hunger on fast days.
🟩 Medieval villagers hung fennel, along with St. John's wort and other herbs, over their doors on Midsummer's Eve to protect their homes from witchcraft and other evils.
🟩 In the Middle Ages, it was believed that serpents or snakes sharpened their eyesight by rubbing against the plant: "Whaune the adder is hurt in eye, Ye red fenel is hys prey".
🟩 Modern Roman bakers place fennel under their bread while baking to add flavour to the loaves.
🟩 Fennel gives off ozone, and, in its powdered form, it is said to repel fleas from stables and kennels.
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