Marriage Prediction With Daisies
This little flower was once regarded as a symbol of deceit. In Shakespeare’s Hamlet Ophelia gives the queen a daisy to convey ‘that her light and fickle love ought not to expect constancy in her husband’.
Despite this the first daisy to appear in a new year brought luck to anyone who stepped on it.
And young girls, anxious to know how long it would be before they married, closed their eyes and plucked a daisy clump at random. The number of flowers picked represented the number of years that they would remain single.
Posted on Fri 3rd Jul 2009 16:02:00