Lilacs

[Natalie O. Kononenko]

Dear Dick and others on the list interested in lilacs,
        Yes, the belief that a five-petalled lilac blossom is
like a 4-leaf clover is wide-spread.  The difference, as the
previous respondent noted, is that you have to eat the lilac --
not just find it -- to get good luck.  Now, do any of you know
if this is documented in the various dictionaries of sueveriia
that have been coming out lately?  Also, would anyone know if
there is some sort of medicinal basis to the encouragement to
eat lilac blossoms (in small quanitites, of course)?  Does
anything to do with lilacs appear in the many herbal books that
have come out of late?

Natasha
Natalie Kononenko, Univ. of Virginia
nkm at virginia.edu