Find even ash or four-leaved clover,
An’ you’ll see your true love before the day’s over.
The color in which a girl dresses is important, not only during courtship, but after marriage.
Those dressed in blue
Have lovers true;
In green and white
Forsaken quite.
Green, being sacred to the fairies, is a most unlucky hue. The “little folk” will undoubtedly resent the insult should any one dress in their color. Mr. Henderson[10] has known mothers in the south of England absolutely forbid it to their daughters, and avoid it in the furniture of their houses. Peter Bell’s sixth wife could not have been more inauspiciously dressed when she—
Put on her gown of green,
To leave her mother at sixteen,