The true Democrat., 1855-01-10
Popular Superstitions.

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 Popular Superstitions
 The following is very quaint and diverting llst of the sympathetic superstitions which were once devoutly believed in by thousands and thousands of the human race: When women boil yarn, they must tell lie at the same tlme otherwise it will not get white.
 Parents must not buy their childr any rat ties, nor allow any to be given theil or they difficulty ty cradle, or he will weigh the childs 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
 years old you must get 1t godfathers out of three different parishes.
 Ii you let a child look into looking glass before 1t IS year old, it will become proud.
 Children that cry at christening will die soon.
 Let mother go three Sundays successivelv out of the church In silence, and blow each time into the mouth of her child, and it will oct it's teeth easy
 Let the father immediately after the christen- ing give the child a sword in its hand. and it will become brave. Blue cornhowers gathered on Corpus Christi sunday stop the bleeding at the nose, if they are held in the hand till warm.
 woman can cure her ear ache by binding a mans stocking around her head.
 Elder, planted before the stable-door pre. serves the cattle from wtchcraft
 lie who carries about him a cord with which rupture doctor has bound up rup- ture may lift the heaviest weight without any danger.
 piece of wood out of a coffin that has been dug up, when laid in cabbage bed, defends it from caterpillars One should not lean over cradle where a child IS sleeping, nor should 1t 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 1t on table, otherwise it will not grow.
 He who has the hiccups, let him plunge na- draug int of 1t at one breath.
 He who cannot sleep. be it a child or admit let him lay composing wisp under his pillow: that lS' straw which workmen put under the burdens on their backs; but 1t must be taken from the people unknown to them.
 In brewing lay bunch of fnettes in the bar rel; It Is then sale against thunder
 wife who has a cold must sneeze into her husbands shoe. It Is not good to strike beast with q switch which has bppO nSa1 to ol;
 Chastlse neither man nor beast with neel- ed stick, for whatever is beaten with it will dry up.
 When you place your shoes reversed at the head ot your bed the nightmare cannot oppress you.
 Old women often cut turf of a foot long which their enemy has lately trodden on, and hang It up in the chimney, and their enemy must wlther away.
 Let any one who has great anxiety touch the great toe of dead person, and he will at once become free from it.
 Ii any one dies in the house, you must shake the bee-hives and the wine and vinegar, or the bees, the wine and the vinegar will all go off or spoil.
 The first medicine which Iying-in woman takes, should be out of her husbands spoon; it will then be more efficacious.
 During the pains of child birth, it does good to turn the slippers of the husband round.
 Three grains of salt in measure of milk preserves 1t from witchcraft
 No one must taste the first warm beer which IS given to a lying-in woman 1t must be tried with the finger, otherwise the woman will be at- tackled with colic
 If chidl has the red gum, take piece of wood from mill~wheel, burn it, and smoke the chlld's swaddEng-clothes herewith; then wash the child with water that flows from the wheel. The wheel that remains must be cast into running water
 You should never wean child while trees are Ill blossom; otherwise 1t will have gray hair
 Three buttons bound together with thread, and lad in coffin, will free from warts
 If any one has received a bodily hurt, wash him with brook water while t'.e bell is tolling for funeral