Leave the woods as soon as you hear three strange sounds, like timbers cracking, for something will surely happen. Look for work on Friday and you will never remain in any position very long. Moving a bed around the room on Sunday will bring you bad luck. Once a man carried brush on Sunday and as a punishment he was placed in the moon. Plowing up a black snake at the beginning of the season indicates good luck for the farmer that year.
Some actors believe that if they spill tea on a tablecloth, they wil forget their part that night.
Start work in a new position on Sunday and it will end badly. Take a piece of real hard bread and sew it up in a little bag and put that over your kitchen door and it will bring work to the house. The best day of the week for starting any business is your birthday. The light on a miner's cap going out as he enters the mine foretells his death within fifteen minutes. The miner who strikes a sulfur ball with his pick while in a mine will have bad luck.