Pare your finger-nails on Monday before breakfast and you will receive a present. Rub your itching left hand on unvarnished wood and you will procure money. Scratch your itching hand on wood for luck. Scratching you hand with your finger-nails will bring you bad luck. Shaking hands with your left hand will bring you bad luck.
Short fingers are a sign of an easy life.
Short finger-nails on a person mean that he is a talebearer. Short stubby fingers denote that you descended from ancestors who work for their livelihood. Someone will soon shake hands with you, if your right hand itches. Spit into the palm of your left hand when it itches, then rub your hand over your buttocks, and you will get money. Spit into the palm of an itching right hand and you will receive a letter.