Thus, some of the North-Western Indians believed that those who died a natural death would be compelled to dwell among the branches of tall trees.

The Brazilians have a mythological character called Mani--a child who died and was buried in the house of her mother.

Soon a plant sprang out of the grave, which grew, flourished, and bore fruit.

This plant, says Mr.
Dorman,[33] was the Mandioca, named from _Mani_, and _Oca_, house.

By the Mexicans marigolds are known as "death-flowers," from a legend that they sprang up on the ground stained by, "the life-blood of those who fell victims to the love of gold and cruelty of the early Spanish settlers in America." Among the Virginian tribes, too, red clover was supposed to have sprung from and to be coloured by the blood of the red men slain in battle, with which may be compared the well-known legend connected with the lily of the valley formerly current in St.Leonard's Forest, Sussex.