 Another plant of omen is the yarrow (ScMllaea millefolium), called by us yarroway. The mode of divination is this : — You must take one of the serrated leaves of the plant, and with it tickle the inside of the nostrils, repeating at the same time the...  County Folk-lore– Printed Extracts. Suffolk. No. 2 - 98 psl.redagavo - 1893 - 202 psl.Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
 | Robert Forby - 1830 - 322 psl.
...off, so many years it will be before you are married. Another plant of omen is the yarrow (Achilltea millefolium), called by us yarroway. The mode of divination...charm, success in your courtship is held to be certain. The mode of discovering the sweet-heart, by laying a peascod with nine peas in it over the door, is... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1849 - 308 psl.
...repeating the following lines. If the operation causes the nose to bleed, it is a certain omen of success : Yarroway, yarroway, bear a white blow, If my love love me, my nose will bleed now. Another mode of divination with this plant caused a dream of a future husband. An ounce of yarrow,... | |
 | Richard Chandler Alexander Prior - 1863 - 288 psl.
...that part of England a girl will tickle the inside of the nostril with a leaf of this plant, saying, " Yarroway, yarroway, bear a white blow ; If my love love me, my nose will bleed now." See also Park. Th. Bot. p. 695, who says that " it is called of some Nose bleede from making the nose... | |
 | 1865 - 228 psl.
...following distich is repeated. If blood follows this charm, success in courtship is held to be certain: " Yarroway, Yarroway, bear a white blow; If my love love me, my nose will bleed now." (jowe, P.) Vos. s.) COnSuIO, CATH. C-NSEt-(3euyn, K. 3ecownsel, JEDDYNOE, or geest, idem quod OEEST... | |
 | 1865 - 236 psl.
...following distich is repeated. If blood follows this charm, success in courtship is held to be certain : " Yarroway, yarroway, bear a white blow ¡ If my love love me, my nose will bleed now." 536 PROMPTORIUM PARVULORUM. JE (jowe, p.) Vos. JEVE COUNsEL (jeuyn, к. jecownsel, s.) Consulo, CATH.... | |
 | John Glyde (jr) - 1872 - 428 psl.
...off, so many years it will be before you are married. Another plant of omen is the yarrow (ScMllaea millefolium), called by us yarroway. The mode of divination...bleed now. If the blood follows this charm, success in courtship is held to be certain. If a brake is cut across, the veins are supposed to show the initials... | |
 | John Glyde - 1872 - 526 psl.
...of the nostrils, repeating at the same time the following lines : Yarroway, yarroway, bear a whito blow ; If my love love me, my nose will bleed now. If the blood follows this charm, success in courtship is held to be certain. If a brake is cut across, the veins are supposed to show the initials... | |
 | Richard Chandler Alexander Prior - 1879 - 332 psl.
...that part of England a girl will tickle the inside of the nostril with a leaf of this plant, saying, " Yarroway, yarroway, bear a white blow ; If my love love me, my nose will bleed now." Parkinson (Th. Bot. p. 695) says that "it is called of some Nose-bleede from making the nose bleede,... | |
 | Richard Folkard - 1884 - 660 psl.
...part of England, a girl will tickle the inside of the nostril with a leaf of this plant, crying: — " Yarroway, Yarroway, bear a white blow ; If my love love me, my nose will bleed now." By a blunder of the mediaeval herbalists, the name and remedial character of the Horse-tail, which... | |
 | James Britten - 1886 - 676 psl.
...the same time the following lines : " Yarroway, yarroway, boar a white blow, If my love love me, rny nose will bleed now." If the blood follows this charm, success in your courtship is hold to be certain.' Vocab. of East Anglia, p. 424. For other similar folklore connected with this... | |
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