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