| Celtic legend claims the spirits of children who died | | | | lady used the daisy as her device, so did Margaret |
| in childbirth scattered daisies on the earth to cheer | | | | of Anjou the wife of Henry IV and Margaret |
| their sorrowing parents. | | | | Beaufort, mother of Henry VII. There is an old |
| Stunning gold hairpins, each ending in a daisy-like | | | | English saying that spring has not come until you |
| ornament were found when the Minoan palace on | | | | can set your foot on twelve daises. |
| the Island of Crete was excavated. They are | | | | King Henry VIII ate dishes of daisies to relieve |
| believed to be more than 4000 years old. | | | | himself from his stomach-ulcer pain. And a |
| Egyptian ceramics are also decorated with daisies. | | | | common remedy for insanity was to drink |
| This daisies' English name was day's eye, referring | | | | crushed daisies steeped in wine, in small doses for |
| to the way this flower opens and closes with the | | | | 15 days. Whether this potion is effective or not, |
| sun. And primitive medical men drew the obvious | | | | well, the jury is out. I do not think there is any |
| conclusion that it was plainly intended to cure eye | | | | scientific research behind it so the author advises |
| troubles. Assyrians crushed daisies and mixed | | | | not to try if not under doctor supervision (and |
| them with oil to turn gray hair dark again. | | | | check the doctor's medical degree if he/she says |
| Marguerite, the French word for daisy, is derived | | | | "go for it". |
| from a Greek word meaning "pearl". Francis I | | | | On the other hand, daisies are a wonderful flower |
| called his sister Marguerite of Marguerites and the | | | | to send expressing friendship, and/or love. |