DAISY PETALS

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• #211

  Pull off the “petals” of a daisy one by one, naming a boy (or a girl as the case may be) at each one, thus, “Jenny, Fanny, Jenny, Fanny,” etc. The one named with the last petal is your sweetheart. The seeds which remain on the back of your hand after taking them up show the number of your children.

• #212

  Common at the present time is the formula:—

  He loves me, he loves me not.

• #213

  To tell the fortune, take an “ox-eye daisy,” and pluck the “petals” one by one, using the same words as have been given above for buttons.

  In Ohio and other Western States where the ox-eye daisy is not common, children use instead the bloom of the despised dog-fennel.

  General in the United States.
• #214

  Fortunes are told by pulling off leaflets of a compound leaf, such as the locust, repeating, “Rich man, poor man,” etc.

  Central Illinois.
• #215

  Name a daisy, and then pull off the petals (ray-flowers) one by one, saying “yes, no,” and if “yes” falls on the last, the person loves you, and vice versa.

  Alabama.
• #216

  A formula for daisy petals:—

  He loves me,
  He don’t;
  He’ll have me,
  He won’t;
  He would if he could,
  But he can’t.

  New Brunswick.
• #217

  If you find a five-leaf daisy (that is, one with five ray-flowers) and swallow it without chewing, you will in the course of the day shake hands with your intended.

  Alabama.
• #218

  Another:—

  Hate her,
  Have her,
  This year,
  Next year,
  Sometime,
  Never.

  New Brunswick.
• #219

  Another:—

  He loves,
  She loves,
  Hate her,
  Have her,
  This year,
  Next year,
  Now or never.

  Girls repeat the last three lines only of the above rhyme.

  Cape Breton.
  Prince Edward Island.