Pluck three thistles in bloom, cut off the purple part and put the remainder of the flower in water over night, after naming. The one that blooms out over night you will marry.
St. John, N. B., and Northern Ohio.
Superstition #261
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 261.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
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