All of these plants foretell some sort of disaster.....

Queen Anne's Lace:
If brought into the house, snakes will follow it. In Yorkshire, this is known as Mother Die, or Stepmother's Blessing, since if it's brought into the house, your mother will die.

Bindweed:
This was also known as Thunder Flower, since if you picked it, it would thunder before the day was out. This power was also ascribed to the poppy.

Hawthorn:
Besides its association with fairies, this plant was considered bad luck in the house, since it either indicated a sore throat, or a dead child.

May Flower:
This bad luck flower, if picked, meant you wouldn't get an apple crop, and that it would rain all summer long.

White Heather:
This was considered unlucky by Scottish loyalists because of its connection with the banishment of Bonny Prince Charles.

Mimosa:
In the house, it is considered a forewarning of disaster.

Herb Robert:
If picked, snakes emerged from the stem.

Primroses:
It was considered unlucky to pick these if it was before the chicks hatched, since the number of primrose blossoms picked indicated the number of chicks that would be born from each clutch. So if you picked primroses, you had to pick a lot. Thirteen was considered the optimal number.

Blackthorn:
This is unlucky to pick because a scratch will cause blood poisoning.

Stag's Horn Sumac:
If this is growing in the garden, it brings marital strife. The same is said of Matrimony vine.

Ivy:
Ivy is unlucky as a gift, and a person who keeps ivy will always be poor. The saying in Ireland is 'The house where ivy grows will surely fall.' Ivy may be brought in as Christmas decorations, but if it is not removed by Candlemas, death will visit the household.

Blackberries:
These cannot be picked after Michaelmas, since after that day they 'have the devil in them'.

Elder:
In Ireland, it was thought an Elder tree growing in the yard made the inhabitants prone to consumption.

Broom: (the plant, not the cleaning implement)
If brought into the house, it 'sweeps someone out'.

Speedwell:
If you pick the flowers, birds will come and pick your eyes out.

Privet:
It was rumored that privet leaves were one of the sources of diphtheria.

Sassafras:
If you burn the wood, and it cracks and sputters, then someone will die.

Gray Pine:
This is called the 'Unlucky Tree' because anyone who stands underneath it will misfortune befall them. It is supposed to affect women more.

Puff-Ball:
These are thought to be poisonous to the touch, to give you the itch, or if the powder gets in your eyes, to blind you.

Bog Ashphodel:
This is considered unlucky because it 'softens the bones'.

Sundew:
Also known as 'Red Rot' because it 'rotteth sheep'.

Innocence:
If you gather the flowers of this plant, it will make you wet the bed. The same is said of dandelions.

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Those people were some sort of Party Animals - huh ?

Moonwort:
This plant had the country name of Unshoe-the-Horse, because it was thought that any horse that trod upon it would become unshod. This was also a property of Rest Harrow and Horseshoe Vetch.

Lavender:
If it thrives in the garden, the young ladies of the house will never marry.

Crocus:
An Austrian superstition says that if you pick crocus blossoms they will draw away your strength and make you weak.

Cyclamen:
It was considered unlucky for a pregnant woman to even step on the plant for it could cause her to have the baby early.

Snowdrops:
Snowdrop in the house is considered a 'death token' by English housewives who thought that the blossom looked like 'a corpse in the shroud, and that it always kept itself close to the earth, seeming to belong more to the dead than to the living.'

Cuckoo Pint:
If young girls touch it, they will become pregnant. The Cuckoo-flower, also known as Lady's Smock, was also considered unlucky because it was associated with the Devil. (The Arum family, Aroidae, which numbers nearly 1,000 members, mostly tropical, and many of them marsh or water plants, is represented in this country by a sole species, Arum maculatum [Linn.], familiarly known as Lords and Ladies, or Cuckoo-pint.)

Rampion:
Campanula rapunculus, besides being the bellflower that caused Rapunzel all her problems, will cause your children to be quarrelsome if grown in your garden.

Pansy:
English folklore holds that to pick a pansy with the dew still on it will cause the death of a loved one. Pansies were considered by Victorians to be a bad luck gift for a man.

Violets:
To carry violets (or snowdrops or primroses) into the house when they first bloomed was considered bad luck. And violets (or roses) which bloom in fall indicate an epidemic the following year.

Peony:
Peonies are thought to be protected by woodpeckers, and if you gather the flowers for medicinal purposes while a woodpecker is in sight, the patient will die.

Columbine:
Besides being the symbol of folly, a gift of columbines to a woman was considered bad luck.

Sage:
It's considered bad luck to plant sage in your own garden; a stranger should be found to plant it for you. A entire bed of sage without any other plants in it was also considered bad luck.

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Pinhead,Pin-Up at 56,Pinintheneck,Pindead,PinM&M, PinMoney, Pinocchio Pincushion, Pinwheel, Pinochle

[This message has been edited by Pinhead (edited 05-20-2000).]

I'd never plant Sage in my own garden. After I plug 'im, I figger Boot Hill is good enuff fer the varmint!

love it LOL!

LOL! Don't get Gunslinger started PinPlant!

But why not JoJo??? Isn't it time for another go~round..hehehe···

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Pinhead,Pin-Up at 56,Pinintheneck,Pindead,PinM&M, PinMoney, Pinocchio Pincushion, Pinwheel, Pinochle

LOL NEVER again will I give a plant as a gift..might be cursing someone!!

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