bees — In medieval, Elizabethan, and Stuart times, bees were regarded as mysterious, intelligent, and holy; their wax was used in church *candles, honey was a biblical image for God s grace and the joys of heaven, poets praised the hive as a model… … A Dictionary of English folklore
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