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Superstition #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.

Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 213.

Fanny D. Bergen, editor.

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