"How Science Can Help You Find a 4-Leaf Clover." March 15, 2014. "Black Cats & Four-Leaf Clovers: The Origins of Old Wives' Tales and Superstitions in Our Everyday Lives." (Dec. "The story of four-leaf clovers, a missing bike and a cop." Democrat & Chronicle. "Epistemic luck." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 77.1 (2008): 272-281. "56 leaf clover new Guinness record." Sept. "Largest collection of four-leaf clovers." 2014. "GARDENING On the Lookout for Four-Leaf Clovers." The New York Times.
"Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries." Oxford University Press. "What are the odds: Woman finds 21 four-leaf clovers in her front yard." The Daily Telegraph. "Theories of Data Analysis: From Magical Thinking Through Classical Statistics, Exploring Data Tables, Trends and Shapes." Wiley. "The Effects of Superstition on Choice and Latency." Psychology & Marketing 31.12 (2014): 1074-1083. In that spirit, here's a bit of clover trivia: In 2009, after studying ways to crossbreed the lucky plant, a farmer in Japan named Shigeo Obara grew a clover with 56 leaves on it! Logically, that makes it 14 times luckier than a mere four-leaf clover. That said, in this case at least, magical thinking is a lot more fun than skepticism. Magical thinking skirts around awkward questions like this and sticks to the convenient details while ignoring the inconvenient ones. But a skeptic might ask how someone toting a quiver of the lucky clovers would have the misfortune of being robbed of her bike in the first place. Both she and the officer who found it attribute the happy outcome to the four-leaf clover she gave him from her collection. Take the story of Sandra and her stolen bicycle. Magical thinking kicks in when we refuse to revise our conclusions despite all evidence to the contrary. This is what scholars like to call, "magical thinking." Because of the way our brains operate, we're constantly looking for connections in order to explain the happenstance of the world around us. In other words, you're lucky just to find one, so it stands to reason (a certain kind of reason) that more luck will follow. It's that rarity that accounts for the luck associated with four-leaf clovers. As mentioned earlier, your chances of finding a four-leaf clover are a measly one in 10,000. Nobody's exactly sure what causes this to happen but, for whatever reason, it rarely does. That fourth leaf, it turns out, is the result of a suppressed gene that fails to be suppressed. Trifolium repens also happens to be the kind of clover that produces the lucky four-leaf aberration. There are 300 species of clover, but the best one for the soil is known as white clover, or Trifolium repens. That's to say, clover is very good at pulling nitrogen from the air and rooting it in the ground for other plants to eat.
So we've established that four-leaf clovers have been considered powerfully lucky for a very long time, but why?Ĭlover is a type of pea and is valued by farmers for a couple of reasons: Cows like to fill their faces with it bees like to fill up on its nectar and the plant itself likes to fill its boots with nitrogen. West of England, in Cornwall, some people alleged that if pixies stole your child and left a changeling in its place, the only way to get your own offspring back was to lay a four-leaf clover on the impostor. Along these lines, the English have a tradition that if you dream of clover, you're guaranteed a happy and prosperous marriage. Similarly, a poem in the popular tradition holds that the four leaves on the lucky clover signify fame, wealth, health and faithful love. One leaf stood for the Father, one for the Son and the third for the Holy Spirit, all united on the single stem of the Godhead. The four-leaf variety being in short supply, he settled on the ubiquitous three-leaf clovers to explain the three-in-one nature of the Holy Trinity to the heathens. Patrick decided to use them as a teaching tool when he set about converting Ireland to Christianity. With the little green plants enjoying such popularity, it's no wonder St.
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