Sneeze on a Monday, sneeze for danger. Sneeze on a Tuesday, kiss a stranger. Sneeze on a Wednesday, get a letter. Sneeze on a Thursday, something better. Sneeze on a Friday, sneeze for sorrow. Saturday—see your true love to-morrow.
Menna Abu Zahrahas quotedlast year
Serpents’ Eggs and Snake Eggs
Menna Abu Zahrahas quotedlast year
remote parts of the Highlands.
Menna Abu Zahrahas quotedlast year
To prevent a child having the whooping-cough, hang an adder stone round its neck.
Menna Abu Zahrahas quotedlast year
The herbs were then burned.
Menna Abu Zahrahas quotedlast year
Easter Sunday to place herbs and simples in a wooden vessel together with the dried carcase of a snake, which every person present must have touched with his, or her, fingers.
Dannihas quoted2 years ago
Persons born on a Saturday can see ghosts.—Highlands.
Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
held a festival in honour of the ghosts,
Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
In Yorkshire it was held by old country people that the beans contained the souls of the departed, and even to-day a bean shape is associated, in some connection, with death—a relic of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
Accidents are most frequent when the broad bean is in flower.—East Midlands