Martin was allowed to feel the plant through the cloth of the coat but Morison would by no means let him open the seam, even for a reward. Fuga daemonum, 'the demon's flight', is an old Latin name for a plant used in charms against evil, sometimes applied to St John's wort.
The account sits in the second-sight chapter beside cures by prayer and holy water. Morison appears to have regarded the gift as a burden to be switched off. Other seers in Martin's accounts also tried to rid themselves of it.
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