to sleep with an ounce of yarrow sewn in flannel under the pillow. In Suffolk a leaf was placed in the nose so it would bleed, while reciting Green 'arrow, green 'arrow, you bears a white blow,If my love love me, my nose will bleed now;If my love don't love me, it 'on't bleed a drop,If my love do love me, 'twill bleed every drop. In Dublin on May Day or the night before, women would place a stocking full of yarrow under their pillow and recite: Good morrow, good yarrow, good morrow to thee,I hope by the yarrow my lover to see;And that he may be married to me.The colour of his hair and the clothes he does wear,And if he be for me may his face be turned to me,And if he be not, dark and surely may he be,And his back be turned toward me. In the witchcraft trial of Elspeth Reoch in March 1616, she was alleged to have plucked "melefour," thought to be another name for yarrow, and said "In nomine Patris, Fiili, et Spiritus Sancti" to become able to cure distemper (disorders of the four humours) and impart the faculty of prediction. Yarrow was thought to bring luck due to being, according to one woman cited by James Britten, "the first herb our Saviour put in His hand when a child." This is apparently a corruption of the Achilles myth. Gallery References External links Kansas Wildflowers – Achillea millefolium Dr. Duke's Databases: Achillea millefolium Winter identification photographs Achillea millefolium L. Medicinal Plant Images Database (School of Chinese Medicine, Hong Kong Baptist University) millefolium Butterfly food plants Drought-tolerant plants Flora of North America Flora of Europe Flora of temperate Asia Garden plants of Europe Garden plants of North America Groundcovers Herbs Medicinal plants of Asia Medicinal plants of Europe Plants described in 1753 Plants used in traditional Native American medicine Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus