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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 28 January 2008 - Volume 03</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Paul Finlow-Bates</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk">wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe">LL-L "Traditions" 2008.01.25 (05) [E]<br></span><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px;">
<div><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: <span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Marsha Wilson</span> <span><<a href="mailto:marshatrue@mtangel.net" target="_blank">marshatrue@mtangel.net</a>> </span> </span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject:</span><span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> LL-L "Traditions" 2008.01.25 (02) [E]</span><br><br></span> <div><font face="Comic Sans MS">We
did that in our family in Los Angeles in the 1940's, using dandelions,
as we had no buttercups. I suppose we brought it from Appalachia in
the 20's. I've never heard anyone else mention it until now.</font></div><font color="#888888"> <div><font face="Comic Sans MS">Marsha Wilson</font></div></font> <div> </div> <div style="margin-left: 40px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" color="#888888"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span></font><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: Tom Mc Rae <span><<a href="mailto:t.mcrae@uq.net.au" target="_blank">t.mcrae@uq.net.au</a>></span> </span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Traditions" 2008.01.24 (07) [E]</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"></span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In Scotland young children played a game in which one kid would pick a butter cup,</span></div> <div style="margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
say "Lit me see whither Ye like buh/ur" as he held it below the other's
chin.</div> <div style="margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The yellow reflection confirmed they did.</div> <div style="margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Wonder if they do this nowadays ? We had simple pleasures in the 1940's.</div></div></blockquote> <div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">We did that in Leicestershire in the 50s, and New Zealand (where the buttercup is introduced) in the 60s.</div>
<font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" color="#888888"> <div> </div> <div>Paul Finlow-Bates</div></font><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">----------</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Paul Finlow-Bates</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk">wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe">LL-L "Remembrance" 2008.01.27 (09) [E]<br></span><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
From: <span style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);"><a href="mailto:foga0301@stcloudstate.edu" target="_blank">foga0301@stcloudstate.edu</a></span> <br>Subject: LL-L "Remembrance" 2008.01.26 (08) [E]<br> <div><span>How long do ravens live?</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.........</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">remembering buttercups becomes a way to resisting the absence of gentleness in
our world. Not sure about the redness that comes from touching such flowers. I'll ask my botanist (expert) friend. </span></div> <div><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span> </div> <div><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Gael Fonken</span></div>
</blockquote> <div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">A
variety of buttercup was known to the Anglo-Saxons as "Spearwort".
Supposedly it had magical properties including the gift of foretelling,
in the right hands. Maybe the childs game is in part a memory of this?</div><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" color="#888888"> <div> </div> <div>Paul Finlow-Bates</div></font><br>
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