| Summary: | deadman n (superstition) There is a very common, white-coloured field flower which was called "dead men's flowers" by the children which my wife knew when she was 7 to 14 years old. They believed that if you picked such flowers your father would die. This was not just something they said they really seemed to take it seriously My wife never remembers them being picked. Although she didn't fully believe they could cause a tragedy if picked she always avoided pick- ing them. white-coloured field flower DNE-cit DICT CEN. Used I Used I Used I dead-man's cap, DEVIL'S CAP, FAIRY, dead-man's daisy, ~ posy, dead-man's dive, dead-man's flower, dead-man's pinch, dead-man's share, daddy-die "Newfoundland Folklore Survey" card; Checked by Cathy Wiseman on Mon 19 Jan 2015; headword contains a hyphen; card contains hand drawn picture with labels
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