Five Leaf Clover = Four Leaf Clover + Money
5 leaf clover
Five Leaf Clover .. the fifth is ” MONEY! ”
The first is Hope
Second is Faith
Third is Love
Fourth is Luck
Fifth is………………. MONEY! MONEY MONEY!
Another Anterpretation is :
five leaf clover - the fifth is MONEY!
5 Leaf Clover Stands for:
One is Love
Two is Health
Three is Wealth
Fourth is Luck
Fifth is Success or MONEY!!
five leaf clover
An anonymous visitor to the site emailed me: “I found a 5 leaf clover… do you know anything about it? Is it good luck or bad luck?”
It’s just a mutation, like the four-leaf clover, of course. The four-leaf mutation is quite rare occurring once in about 10,000 specimens. Five is rarer still. But, according to this site: Five-leaf Clovers bring extra good luck and attracts money.
Nice, I wonder why the banks don’t breed these things and hand them out to their managers.
Of course, there is no such thing as “luck” and no number of leaves on a member of the more than 300-strong species of plants in the pea family Fabaceae is going to change that. Clover (Trifolium), or trefoil, usually means three-leafed, hence the surprise when one finds a specimen with four, five or more leaflets. The world record clover is an uber clover with 21 leaflets, although the Guinness record site says 18. Wikipedia, in traditional character has both figures on two different pages. Intriguingly, both the 18 and 21 leaflet specimens were found/grown by Shigeo Obara, a farmer in Japan’s Iwate prefecture.
Clover is found across the globe, most species are found in the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, but many also occur in South America and Africa, particularly at high altitudes in the tropics. Clovers are small annual, biennial, and short-lived perennial herbaceous plants. To “be in clover” means to be living a carefree life of ease, comfort, and prosperity. But, if you’re due for a drug test make sure you haven’t been drinking milk from cows fed on clover. Clover has a small amount of morphine, which can end up in bottled milk. Eating clover itself can trigger blood and urine drug tests. It’s one more excuse for unlucky athletes caught abusing the system.
So, what is the origin of the notion that four-leafed clovers are lucky? According to legend, each leaf, or rather leaflet, represents something: hope, faith, love, and the fourth luck. It presumably has some association with the Irish “Shamrock”, which Saint Patrick used as a metaphor for the Holy Trinity of the Catholic fate. the Shamrock having four leaflets forming a single leaf by definition – God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Such metaphors are not uncommon in other religions where multifaceted deities are represented this way.
But, the Shamrock metaphor doesn’t explain the luck associated with the fourth leaflet the Shamrock metaphor doesn’t explain the luck associated with the fourth leaflet, if anything one would imagine that a fourth leaflet would represent the Devil and so be bad luck. Although some say it is meant to represent God’s grace. According to the Wisegeek site, when Adam and Eve left the Garden of Eden, Eve is supposed to have carried a four leaf clover. “Curiously, the lore of the white clover plant is also associated with repelling snakes, though it didn’t seem to work in the Garden of Eden,” the site says. I suspect the snake-repellant aspect comes from the Irish St Patrick legend. Ireland famously has no snakes.
One important aspect of the four-leaf clover myth is that for it to bring luck you must find it serendipitously, there’s no point in searching for one and certainly no point in buying one; several websites offer for sale hand-picked four-leaf clovers! However, if you were a child in the Middle Ages who found a four-leaf clover you would have been given the gift of being able to see fairies and plant sprites…
It’s all superstitious nonsense, steeped in the mythology of religion, in dark times there is a deep-rooted (pardon the pun) psychological need to cling to such ideas of a better life beyond the grave and the idea of good luck associated with a symbolic plant simply reinforces such notions and reminds us of the deep-seated need in many people to postpone thoughts of their own mortality. Whoops…got all heavy there. Apologies. It seems that searching for four-leaf and beyond clovers is a perennial favourite among children and if it gets them out in to their gardens or the countryside on a long hike to search for the biggest then that’s no bad thing. Indeed, the exercise and fresh air will no doubt bring them luck by helping to stave off obesity and type 2 diabetes. Just don’t let them pick any dandelions…it’ll make them wet the bed, you know?
The original short version of this post originally appeared on Sciencebase – 2005-05-19
Lucky Four-leaf clover
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4 leaf clover brings good luck and happiness
According to legend, each leaf represents something:
the first is for hope.
the second is for faith.
the third is for love.
and the fourth is for luck.
Another Popular Interpertation
One leaf for fame,
One leaf for wealth,
One for a faithfully lover,
One for glorious health,
All in this four-leafed clover.
All these make the four leaf clover magicial
It is the most universal symbol of good luck and great fortune.
For yourself or as a gift.
four-leaf clover makes a prefect good luck gift
as present or for yourself
Who couldn’t use more good luck ?
Five Leaf Clover
5 leaf clover
Jinx Adams, baker’s assistant, is becoming annoyed at having coins appear around her wherever she goes. Dropping the latest arrivals in her jar, she heads downstairs, only to stop suddenly upon seeing the handsome men standing in the boardinghouse lobby. Jinx finds herself strangely drawn to one of the men, but when he glances in her direction, she pulls back, trying not to be seen, and two silver coins fall to the floor. Muttering, she grabs the two coins and leaves the lobby, only to slip on the icy sidewalk. Picking herself up, she walked carefully down the street towards the diner and determinedly ignoring the glimmer of coins under the snow.
Conor Leath is not pleased at being marooned in this hick town when he and his buddy could be in Indianapolis and watching the basketball game. Instead, they’re stuck, eating diner food, watching Darby O’Gill and the Little People on the diner TV, and discussing the existence of leprechauns. As Conor glances around the diner, he catches sight of Jinx, and their eyes meet. After finishing their meal and way too many beers, Conor and Steve stagger back to the boardinghouse, and while Steve goes upstairs and straight to bed, Conor wanders through the downstairs rooms where something metallic caught his eye. Curious, he followed the sparkle to the back yard to see the woman from the diner, apparently burying a sack of coins. At that moment, Conor knew his uncle’s stories were true – leprechauns DO exist. She was standing in front of him, and Conor was determined to catch her.
This short story was a lot of fun to read! I loved the way Jinx interpreted Conor’s wishes and enjoyed Conor’s frustration at her literal responses. Jinx’s confusion at her newly-discovered abilities, the support of her boss and her landlady, Steve’s betrayal, and Conor’s defense allow Jinx to become more comfortable with the person she is becoming. This delightful St. Patrick’s Day story is the third in a series on Holiday Magic, and now I need to read the other two!
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5 Leaf Clover Superstitions
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5 Leaf Clover Superstitions
5 leaf clover? It’s just a mutation, like the 4-leaf clover, of course. The four-leaf mutation is quite rare occurring once in about 10,000 specimens. Five is rarer still. But, according to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Five-leaf Clovers bring extra good luck and attracts money.
“The world record for the most leaves on a clover stem is 18 and was discovered by Shigeo Obara of Hanamaki City, Iwate, Japan on May 25, 2002. ” Guinness World Records 2010
