
The Strange Origins of Popular Superstitions
TheThinkingAtheist
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The Four Leaf Clover Song
A clover is a plant of the genus tripolium. It combines trec or three and folium for leaf. There are about 300 different species of clovers out there. They almost always have three leaves, so they are tri foiled. But sometimes, on rare occasions, these clonies are quatrefoiled, four leafed. And already we can see that it's a very special occasion if you stumble upon one. The notion for luck and magic far pre dates the seventeenth century.
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