The moonwort was formerly associated with many superstitions and was reputed to open all locks at a mere touch, and to unshoe all horses that trod upon it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference

Culpeper, the herbalist, to illustrate the powers of the plant moonwort, tells of a wonderful incident that occurred to Lord Essex's horse, presumably when his army was here in 1644.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference

This does not seem to discourage the moonwort at all.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

The blue moonwort, a member of the primrose family, can.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

The botanical name is Lunaria (it also goes by money plant, moonwort, satin flower, and silver dollar).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Martha's Vineyard Times News Headlines] Reference

But it was only a big bunch of moonwort on a stained-glass-window sill, and the wind was blowing through a vacancy that should have been.    From Wordnik.com.  [Somehow Good] Reference

The moonwort is supposed to be a very supernatural plant, and to have the power of opening locks if you place a leaf of it in the keyhole.    From Wordnik.com.  [Monitress Merle] Reference

In the flagstones of Orkney there occurs, though very rarely, a minute vegetable organism, which I have elsewhere described as having much the appearance of one of our smaller ferns, such as the maidenhair-spleenwort, or dwarf moonwort.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed] Reference

We have one to correspond with the adder’s tongue and moonwort, with the Adiantum nigrum and Capillus Veneris, with the Blechnum boreale, with the Ceterach and Ruta muraria, and with the.    From Wordnik.com.  [A First Year in Canterbury Settlement] Reference

The Botrychium Lunaria (moonwort) and Ophioglossum (adder’s tongue) are found within 300 yards of the Baths (occasionally intermittent for a season); the Trichomanes (English maidenhair) grows in one solitary place on the inner walls of a closed well, though entirely unknown anywhere else for many miles round.    From Wordnik.com.  [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference

I've never found any moonwort.    From Wordnik.com.  [Monitress Merle] Reference

Tread upon moonwort with their hollow heels.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference