BAY/LAUREL LEAVES: divination

From: A Dictionary of Superstitions | Date: 1996| Author: | Copyright information

BAY/LAUREL LEAVES: divination
1711 Aristotle's Last Legacy 49. Take two Bay-leaves, sprinkle them with Rose-water; the Evening of this Day, lay them a cross under your Pillow, when you go to Bed, putting on a clean Shift, and turning it wrong side outwards; and lying down, say … ‘Good Valentine be kind to me, In dreams let me my true Love see.’ So crossing your Legs, and go to sleep … you will see in a Dream the Party you are to ...

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