" The elastic powers of plantain extended beyond first aid, though. It was also a divination herb, stretching sight into the future, and was used especially at that time when the membrane between the human and supernatural worlds was at its thinnest. On Midsummer Eve in Berwickshire the flowering stems were employed by young women in a charm which would predict whether they would fall in love. "

― Richard Mabey , Weeds: How Vagabond Plants Gatecrashed Civilisation and Changed the Way We Think About Nature