JOAN ROSINA NOTT, a NINE-year-old schoolgirl with pigtails, whose great-great-grandmother was an Irish colleen, picked NINE four-leaf clovers yesterday-the 13 th.Īnd she was humming “I’m looking over a four-leaf clover. On Thursday 14 th May 1953, the Daily Express (London, England) considered the following event important enough to merit a four-column headline-boldface is the author’s: Four Dollars Reward will be given to any person that will bring it to MARY LIKINS. ![]() The Watch had a china face with a steel chain and two blue seals. One of the persons who was concerned in stealing said Watch was about 5 feet 8 or 9 inches high, well made, short dark hair somewhat inclining to curl, a dark brown jean coattee, spotted under jacket, half worn hat the other had short fair hair, made much like the other, and had on an old white hat and jacket without sleeves, an old pair of dirty tow trowsers both Irishmen, and marked with the small pox. ![]() Was stolen from the subscriber, on the 16 th instant, a SILVER WATCH, of a small size, with a piece of red silk in the outside case, and two four leaf clovers under the silk. The following appeared in The Pennsylvania Packet, and Daily Advertiser ( Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) of Thursday 19 th July 1787: That if a man walking in the fields, finde any foure-leaued grasse 1, he shall in a small while after finde some good thing.ġ According to the Oxford English Dictionary (2 nd edition, 1989), the term four-leaved grass was used to designate “ a four-leaved variety of Trifolium repens”. Rather the Arraignment of Artlesse Astrologers, and Fortune-tellers, that cheat many ignorant people vnder the pretence of foretelling things to come, of telling things that are past, finding out things that are lost, expounding Dreames, calculating Deaths and Natiuities, once againe brought to the Barre (Imprinted at London: By Barnard Alsop, for Edward Blackmore, 1620):Ī Catalogue of many superstitious Ceremonies, especially old men and women hold, which were first found out and inuented by Figure-Casters, Cunning Men and Women in former ages, yet to this day are held for certaine and true obseruations. It was this superstition that the English author and politician John Melton (died 1640) mentioned in Astrologaster, or, The Figure-Caster. It does not store any personal data.The terms four-leaved clover and four-leaf clover designate a rare form of clover leaf having four leaflets, regarded as a lucky charm or sign of good fortune- clover is the common name of the species of trefoil ( Trifolium, family Leguminosæ), especially Trifolium repens and Trifolium pratense. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. ![]() The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional" The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". ![]() These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly.
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