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According to Feri Grandmaster Victor H. Anderson, the Black Rose serves as an alternative symbol for the Black Heart of Innocence.
Although rumored to exist naturally in secretive Middle-Eastern towns, their existence cannot be substantiated. What are sold as black rose are often of such a dark crimson hue as to appear black, or else they are dyed.
The black rose can be used as code for anarchy or anti-government organizations. It was used by Irish rebels, having formerly been a code word for Ireland at a time when that land was forbidden its own identity by the English government.
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ROSE MYTHOLOGY
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The Rose was sick, and smiling died;
And, being to be sanctified,
About the bed, there sighing stood
The sweet and flowery sisterhood.
Some hung the head, while some did bring,
To wash her, water from the spring;
Some laid her forth, while others wept,
But all a solemn fast there kept.
The holy sisters some among,
The sacred dirge and trental sung;
But ah! what sweets smelt everywhere,
As heaven had spent all perfumes there!
At last, when prayers for the dead,
And rites, were all accomplished,
They, weeping, spread a lawny loom,
And closed her up as in a tomb.
-Hennrick |
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