White is the dead mid-winter, pure and chaste, the snowdrop, Galanthus nivalis (Candlemas bells), decorated the churches

White is the dead mid-winter, pure and chaste, the snowdrop, Galanthus nivalis (Candlemas bells), decorated the churches on February the second, the Feast of the Purification of the Virgin…but don’t bring those snowdrops into your house—they’ll bring you bad luck, you might even drop dead: for the snowdrop is the flower of the dead…

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