Four- and Five-Leaved Clovers and Fairies (Northumbria)

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four leaf clover fairiesIn South Northumberland a great deterrent as well as revealer of the fairies, and a preventative of their influence, was a ‘four-neuked clover’ (a quadrifoil), although a ‘five-neuked’ specimen (a cinquefoil) is reckoned equally efficacious. This I learned from the people. (Denham 142)

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