Part 24 (1/2)
Housekeepers will prefer paying a quarter's rent extra to going into a house on that day. It is, of course, most unlucky to be married on it.
Wednesday is the day considered most favorable for the purpose.
_Newfoundland._
618. If you cut your nails on Sunday, you'll do something you're ashamed of before the week is out.
_Maine._
619. If business is transacted on Sunday, you will lose by it on the coming week.
_New York._
620. Pancake Day is Shrove Tuesday. If you do not eat pancakes on that day, you will have no luck throughout the year. The hens won't lay, etc.
_Chestertown, Md._
621. When the two figures that tell one's age are alike, as 22, 33, etc., some great change in life is to be expected.
_Nashua, N.H._
DRESSING.
622. If you put on any garment wrong side out, as, for example, a pair of stockings, never change it, as to do so brings ill luck. This direction is intuitively followed by many people who are entirely free from conscious superst.i.tion.
_General in the United States._
623. If you put a garment on wrong side out, you mustn't speak of it, or you will have bad luck.
_Maine._
624. If you put a garment on wrong side out, or a hat on wrong end before, spit on it before turning, to prevent bad luck.
_Maine and Ohio._
625. If a garment is put on wrong side out, it is lucky, but unlucky to turn it.
_Prince Edward Island and Ma.s.sachusetts._
626. To clothe the left foot before the right one is a sign of misfortune.
_Ohio._
627. If you b.u.t.ton up your dress wrong, _i.e._, do not begin with the b.u.t.ton and b.u.t.ton-hole opposite each other, it means bad luck, or good luck if worn uneven until after sunset.
_Cape Breton._
628. The putting of the left shoe on the right foot, lacing it wrong, or losing a b.u.t.ton, are all bad signs.
_Alabama._
629. Walking across the room with one shoe off is a sign of ill luck.
_Alabama._
630. When putting on your shoes and stockings, if you complete dressing one foot before beginning to dress the other, it is a sign you will be disappointed.
_Northern Ohio._
HORSESHOES.
631. It is good luck to find a horseshoe.