New Orleans daily crescent., 1854-12-25
popalss gnpssstitisns.

The following is a very quaint and diverting |
list Of the Sympathetic Snperstitions which we're
once devoutly believed in by thousands and
thousapds Of the human race:
Vixen women boil yarn, they must tell he |
at che same time otherwise it will not get white
Parents must not buy their children any rat
ties, nor allow any to be given them, or they
will be slow at learning, and will speak with
difficulty
When you take straw for a hens nest out Of a
marriage bed, you must take it from the mans
side il you want cook chickens, and from the
wife's if you want hen chickens.
No one must on any account weigh an empty
cradle, or he will weigh the child's rest away.
The nails on the hands of an infant must be
bitten off by the mother for the first time, or it
will learn to steal.
If you wish child to become hundred years
old, you must get it godfathers out Of three diff
ferent parishes.
If YOU let child look into O looking glass
before it is year old, it will become proud.
Children that CRY at christening will die
soon.
Let mother 20 three Sundays SUCCESSFULLY
out of the church in silence, and blow each
time into the mouth OF her child, and it will
| get it's teeth easy.
Let the father Immediately after the chris
tening give the child sword in its hand, and it
| will become brave.
| Blue cornfowers gathered on Corpus Christi
Sunday stop the bleeding at the nose, il they
| are beld in the hand till warm.
A woman can cure her eur ache by binding
mans stocking around her head. :
Elder planted before the stable-door preserves
1 the cattle from witchcraft.
He who carries about him cord with which
a rupture doctor has bound up a rupture may
lift the heaviest weight without any danger.
/ A piece of wood out of q coffin that has been
dug up, when laid in q cabbage-bed, defends it
from caterpillars.
Cne should not lean over cradle where q
child is sleeping, nor should it be left standing
open.
Splinters from an oak split by lightning cure
toothache.
He who would SOW seed, let him be careful
not to lay it on table, otherwise it will not
grow.
He who has the hiccup, let him plunge q
naked knife into o can of beer, and take good
draught of it at one breath.
He who cannot sleep, be it child or adult,
let him lay composing wisp under his pillow
that is, straw which workmen put under the
burdens on their backs; but it must be taken
from the people unknown to them.
In brewing, lay bunch of nettles in the bar
, rel; it is then safe against thunder
wife who has cold must sneeze into hel
. husbands shoe.
} Ii 1S not goou TO strlke peasb WIN " eWAoei
, which has been used to correct child.
Chastise neither man nor beast with peelee
stick for whatever is beaten with it will dry up
+ When you place your shoes reversed at tht
] head of your bed, the nightmare cannot oppres
. you.
: Old women often cut turf of foot lonl
0 which their enemy has lately trodden on, ant
o hang it up in the chimney, and their enem,
must wither away.
s Let any one who has great anxiety touch tn
great toe of dead person, and he will ct one
become free from it.
If any one dies in the house, you must shak
the bee-hiyes and the wine and vinegar, or tn
q bees, the wine and the vinegar will all go off
. spoil
takes. should be out of her husbands spoon i
will then be more effcacious.
Il During the pains of child birth, it does goo
n to turn the slippers of the husband round.
= Three grains of salt in measure of milk pre-
: serves it from witchcraft.
No one must taste the first warm beer whic
is given to @ lying-in woman; it must pc trie
with the finger, otherwise the woman will be Of
IA tackled with collie.
If child has the red. gum, take piece
~ wood from mill-Wheel, burn it, and smoke th
childs swaddling- clothes Herewith; then was
Al the child with water that flows from the whee
h The wheel that remains must be cast into ruI
m ming water.
= You should never wean child while tre
are in blossom otherwise it will have gra
hair.
Three buttons bound together with threa
and laid in q coffin, will free from warts.
ny If any one has received bodily hurt, was
ut him with brook while the bell is tolliI
as for q funeral