The Common Knapweed, Centaurea nigra, has often been used to determine true love. From the familiar game of removing petals one by one to a chant of ‘he loves me, he loves me not...’ to a more involved procedure of a maiden placing a cut flower head in her bosom. If the flower head should bloom again when withdrawn, then true love is said to follow! June
Common Knapweed
The Common Knapweed, Centaurea nigra, has often been used to determine true love. From the familiar game of removing petals one by one to a chant of ‘he loves me, he loves me not...’ to a more involved procedure of a maiden placing a cut flower head in her bosom. If the flower head should bloom again when withdrawn, then true love is said to follow!