Mona A Radford

Encyclopedia of Superstitions

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  • dariadiahas quoted3 years ago
    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 quoted2 years ago
    Serpents’ Eggs and Snake Eggs
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    remote parts of the Highlands.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    To prevent a child having the whooping-cough, hang an adder stone round its neck.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    The herbs were then burned.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    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.
  • dariadiahas quoted3 years ago
    Persons born on a Saturday can see ghosts.—Highlands.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    held a festival in honour of the ghosts,
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 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 quoted4 years ago
    Accidents are most frequent when the broad bean is in flower.—East Midlands
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