Part 26 (2/2)

_Northern Ohio._

699. To find a four-leaved clover is lucky; but five-leaved, unlucky.

_General in the United States._

700. When a vessel is launched, break a bottle of wine over her for luck.

The bottle is to be broken by a lady.

_General in the United States._

701. Never carry clean wet clothes from one house to another, as it will bring ill luck.

_Chestertown, Md._

702. Do not go into your new house by the back door; if you do you take disaster with you.

703. Never build on a spot where a house has been burned. The second house is likely to go in the same manner.

_Maine and Ma.s.sachusetts._

704. Light coming in at the window is a bad sign.

_Peabody, Ma.s.s._

705. The opening of an umbrella in the house is a sign of bad luck.

_General in the United States._

706. If you drop your umbrella, you will have ill luck if you pick it up yourself; but the ill luck may be averted by having some one else pick it up.

_Prince Edward Island._

707. To carry a hoe through the house is ill luck.

_Alabama._

708. To light three lights with one match is good luck for a week.

_Peabody, Ma.s.s._

709. The falling of a chandelier foretells a disaster in the family.

_New York._

710. Breaking a looking-gla.s.s shows that you'll have seven years of ill luck.

_General in the United States._

711. If a chair be turned about on one of its forelegs, there will be bad luck in the house all that year.

_Talladega, Ala._

712. A mare-browed man, that is, one whose eyebrows meet, is unlucky and can cast spells.

_Newfoundland._

713. It is unlucky, when going deer-hunting, to meet a red-haired man.

_Newfoundland._

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