210. If you count the boards of the ceiling (loft) in a strange room before going to sleep, you will dream of your lover.
Newfoundland.
DAISY PETALS.
211. Pull off the “petals” of a daisy one by one, naming a boy (or a girl as the case may be) at each one, thus, “Jenny, Fanny, Jenny, Fanny,” etc. The one named with the last petal is your sweetheart. The seeds which remain on the back of your hand after taking them up show the number of your children.
212. Common at the present time is the formula:—
He loves me, he loves me not.
213. To tell the fortune, take an “ox-eye daisy,” and pluck the “petals” one by one, using the same words as have been given above for buttons.
General in the United States.
In Ohio and other Western States where the ox-eye daisy is not common, children use instead the bloom of the despised dog-fennel.
214. Fortunes are told by pulling off leaflets of a compound leaf, such as the locust, repeating, “Rich man, poor man,” etc.