Polish folk tales about the origin of plants: lexicographic, ethnographic and folkloristic material

Research data related to the implementation of the National Science Centre grant entitled "The relationships between man and plant in Polish folklore (on the example of shrubs). Studies on the border between ethnolinguistics and ethnobotany" (project number: 2021/43/D/HS2/01019; project manager: Dr. Olga Kielak). The document contains research data used in the analysis of issues related to the divine and diabolical origin of selected plants. I discussed these issues in my article entitled: Divine thus good, devilish thus bad? Folk linguistic perceptions about plants and their characteristics in Polish folklore („Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine” 2025, nr 21, 53). It presents three types of data: a) lexicographic data – folk names of plants that may echo formerly existing belief-based narratives in Polish culture concerning the divine or diabolical origin of a plant; b) ethnographic data – ethnographic records that discuss the origin of selected plants, along with contexts that allow for the reconstruction of traditional perceptions of these plants; c) folkloric data – folk aetiological legends that tell of the origin of selected plants. The folklore texts and ethnographic contexts that form the source material for the document come from ethnographic sources published at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries (monographs and articles printed in ethnographic journals such as Zbiór Wiadomości do Antropologii Krajowej, Materiały Antropologiczno-Archeologiczne i Etnograficzne, Wisła, and Lud). The contexts were excerpted based on a source list adopted by the ethnolinguistic team in Lublin working on the Dictionary of Folk Stereotypes and Symbols. The cited folk plant names that include diabolical components or sacronyms were obtained from dialect dictionaries of the Polish language. The geographical range of the source materials I have gathered covers the entire ethnically Polish territory. In some cases, I also include materials from Poles living in the Polish-Belarusian, Polish-Ukrainian borderlands, as well as the Vilnius region. The document includes metrics (abbreviations), the resolution of which is provided in the bibliography. All analyses conducted based on the collected source data were carried out using a linguistic methodology (cognitive definition).本数据集关联波兰国家科学中心（National Science Centre）立项资助的研究项目，项目名称为《波兰民俗中人与植物的关系——以灌木为例：民族语言学（ethnolinguistics）与民族植物学（ethnobotany）交叉研究》，项目编号：2021/43/D/HS2/01019，项目负责人：奥尔加·基拉克博士（Dr. Olga Kielak）。 本数据集包含用于分析特定植物神性与魔性起源相关问题的研究数据。笔者曾在论文《神性即善，魔性即恶？波兰民俗中关于植物的民族语言学认知及其特征》（发表于"Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine" 2025年第21卷第53页）中探讨过相关议题。 本数据集涵盖三类数据： a) 词汇学数据（lexicographic data）：收录波兰民俗中可能呼应本土传统信仰叙事的植物俗名，这些叙事涉及植物的神性或魔性起源； b) 民族志数据（ethnographic data）：收录阐释特定植物起源的民族志记录，以及可用于重构该类植物传统认知的相关语境； c) 民间传说数据：收录阐释特定植物起源的民间溯源传说。 作为本数据集原始素材的民间传说文本与民族志语境，均源自19世纪末20世纪初出版的民族学资料，包括专著及刊载于《Zbiór Wiadomości do Antropologii Krajowej》《Materiały Antropologiczno-Archeologiczne i Etnograficzne》《Wisła》《Lud》等民族学期刊的论文。上述语境素材引自卢布林（Lublin）地区从事《民间刻板印象与符号词典》编纂工作的民族语言学团队所采用的原始资料清单。本数据集引用的包含魔性元素或神圣代称（sacronyms）的民间植物俗名，均取自波兰语方言词典。 本次采集的原始资料覆盖全部波兰族聚居区域，部分素材亦取自波白、波乌边境地区及维尔纽斯（Vilnius）地区的波兰裔群体。本数据集包含计量缩略表（缩写说明），其详细规范见于文后参考文献列表。 所有基于采集的原始资料开展的分析，均采用语言学研究方法（认知定义法）完成。