Category: DIVINATION
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DANDELION
THE FOLKLORE OF PLANTS: Dandelion Lisa Karen Miller Love them or hate them, these golden beauties have a rich and varied lore. Known as “The Peasant’s Clock,” when its flower opened early in the morning, it was time for the peasant (country dweller) to begin work in the fields.…
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DAISY
THE FOLKLORE OF PLANTS: Daisy Lisa Karen Miller “Bright flowers whose home is everywhere.” William Wordsworth In Hamlet, Ophelia goes to her watery grave wearing a crown of daisies, crowfoot, and nettles. Shakespeare’s suggestion is that she wore a wedding garland of weeds, not flowers, betokening her failed romance…
Folklore of Plants 