“Young girls commonly used dandelions in the 1800s for romantic and oracular purposes. It was believed that if you blew on a dandelion and all the seeds flew away, your loved one returned the feelings; if any seeds remained, they might have reservations or no feelings at all. Children would blow on these flowers while thinking hard about the objects of their affection. Eventually this tradition spread to encompass all wishing, romantic or otherwise.” 🍀
The Native American Indian Butterfly Legend:
“If anyone desires a wish to come true they must first capture a butterfly and whisper their wish to it. Since a butterfly can make no sound, the butterfly can not reveal the wish to anyone but the Great Spirit who hears and sees all.
In gratitude for giving the beautiful butterfly its freedom, the Great Spirit always grants the wish. So, according to legend, by making a wish and giving the butterfly its freedom, the wish will be taken to the heavens and be granted.” 🦋
Maverick Mist 
Beautiful!
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Thanks! 🙂
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I have never heard the butterfly legend. Fun! Thank you. : )
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You’re welcome and thank you. 🙂
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❤
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💜
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This is really quite interesting and reminds me of a poem I posted today. Hope you’re having a lovely weekend! 🙂
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Your poem was lovely and so fits this. It was a little bit of a wintery weekend here but all weekends are good. Thank you. 🙂
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Thanks again… we’re supposed to be getting quite a few inches of snow here too. Gotta love Wisconsin! 😉
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We in the 70’s during the week here in Missouri but then had a dusting of snow Saturday. Crazy weather. 🙂
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Don’t you love how winter tries to hang on like that. She’s such a tease! Lol…. 😋
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We didn’t really have much of a winter this year so I guess she needed one more. 🙂
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Same here…. I guessing this will be her final hoorah for awhile. 😉
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