April’s flower is the DAISY! He loves me…he loves me not. Beautiful gold hairpins decorated with daisy-like ornaments, were found when the Minoan palace was excavated. They were believed to be more than four thousand years old. Ancient Egypt also was found to have daisies on their ceramic pieces. The English name for the daisy is “day’s eye”, which suggested that old medical men understood it to be a cure for eye troubles. Assyrians also believed that crushed daisies mixed with oil would turn your gray hair to a dark pigment again. In the thirteenth century, daisies were used for wounds, fever, and gout. An old English saying says that spring has not come until you can set your foot on twelve daises. If you dream of daisies in the spring or summer that is good but if in the fall or winter it is bad luck. An old Celtic legend says that the spirits of children who died in childbirth scattered daisies on the earth to cheer their sorrowing parents.
“Did you see those Huns? They popped out of the snow, like daisies!”
-Mushu (Disney’s Mulan)
