 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - Children's stories - 1849 - 308 pages
...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 - Botany - 1863 - 288 pages
...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... | |
 | English language - 1865 - 228 pages
...omen, a singular mode of divination practised in Norfolk by means of the yarrow, Achillcea millefollum, there called Yarroway. One of the serrated leaves...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... | |
 | John Glyde (jr) - Ballads, English - 1872 - 428 pages
...plant, and with it tickle the inside of the nostrils, repeating at the same time the following lines : Yarroway, yarroway, bear a white 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,... | |
 | John Glyde - Ballads, English - 1872 - 526 pages
...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 of the name of the future husband.... | |
 | Richard Chandler Alexander Prior - 1879 - 332 pages
...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 - Botany - 1884 - 660 pages
...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 Samuel Stone - England - 1887 - 418 pages
...the inside of the nostril, at the same time repeating these lines : " Green "arrow, green "arrow, you bear a white blow : If my love love me, my nose will bleed now ; If my love don't love me, it "ont bleed a drop ; If my love do love me, 'twill bleed every drop."... | |
 | G. F. Northall - Folk-songs, English - 1892 - 584 pages
...husband.—Norfolk. CB. 15. In Suffolk, the following lines are recited— "Green 'arrow, green 'arrow, you bears a white blow, If my love love me my nose will bleed now; If my love don't love me it 'ont bleed a drop, If my love do love me 'twill bleed every drop." The... | |
 | Lady Eveline Camilla Gurdon - Folklore - 1893 - 226 pages
...plant, and with it tickle the inside of the nostrils, repeating at the same time the following lines : " Yarroway, yarroway, bear a white blow, If my love love me, my nose will bleed now." If the blood follows this charm, success in your courtship is held to be certain. Forby. "Vocabulary... | |
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arrow, green 'arrow, you bears a white blow, If my love love me, my nose will bleed now; If my love don't love me, it o'nt bleed a drop; If my love do love... 
