The meadow buttercup! Children hold the flowers under their chin. If it reflects yellow, it means they like butter.
During the medieval era, beggars rubbed the sap from these flowers into their skin. It is so irritating it opened up horrible sores they hoped might win them sympathy.
In Mrs Burke's Language of Flowers dictionary of 1856, the buttercup meant "ingratitude" and "childishness".
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