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Scott, too, In his discovery of Witch
craft" tells US how sHa TINT receiYeth q

Scott, too, In his Discovery Of Witch
craft" tells US how "He TINT receiyeth
on his shirt the wrong side outward, or hi:
left shoe on his right foot" An old writer
speaking of the customs Of Jews, says
"Some ct them observe, in dressing them
@ s and am2n gRs shos e Ps Pt w9das 81 5as as En
IT, then afterward to put on the left, and sd
20 return to the right; that 50 they may be-
gin and end with the right side, which they
account to be the most fortunate" In Sus-
sex, to put on the left shoe before the right
is considered an infaliible sign Of evil to
come; and . Suffolk doggeTe1 respecting the
wear Of shoes" teaches us the following:
Trip at the toe: live to SEQ wo;
Wear at tho ball: live to spend oil;
/ Wear at the heel: live to save deal
,, Curious to say, the shoe has even entered
the
/ TILE sUPEEsrrr1oSs ASSOCIATED WITH
| DEATH.
According to an Aryan tradition the greater
! part OF fhe way from the land OF the living to
! tnaf OF death lay through morasses and vast
! moors overgrown with fu1ze and thor1s
inat tne dead might not pass over them bare
loot pair Of shoes was laid with them In
tne grave Hence funeral is, we are told
py Mr. Kelly in his "lndo-Ellropean Folk
Lore (115), still called "deatlshoe" in the
llenneberg district; and in Scandinavia the
shoe itself Is called "helshae." In q AIS. Of
y
count Of Cleveland in Yorkshire in the reign
Of Queen Elizabeth, there is passage which
illustrates this custom. 1t was quoted by
Slr Walter Scott in the notes to the Min
thus: When any dieth certaine women
sing song to the dead bodie, reciting the
journey that the partya deceased must goe;
ana they are Of beliefe that once in
l1efr lives it is goode to give a pair
much q S before this life they are to pass
barefoote through great lande, full of
thorns ana fsirzen, except by the meryte Of
me altnes aforesaid, they have redeemed the
Guide man shall meet them, with the same
shoes that were given by the partie when he
was living, and, after he hath shodde them,
dismisssth them to go through thick and |
thin without scratch OF scalle."
Among the items OF folklore associated |
With the shoe, we may mention thatat one
SHINING SHOES WE'RE R1p1cuLED
as part of the precise dress Of fashionable
slt,zenS; e. I49 S. Thus Ben Jonsons Every Man
Wct1rcd's acquaintance
"Mock him oil over,
From his fiat cap unto his shining Shoes
Indeed, many of our old dranatists have
con'ical references to shining shoes. Thus
exclaims,
"Slid! his shoes shine too"
The shoeing-horn, from it's convenient use
In drawing on a tight shoe was. says Mares,
applied in jocular metaphor to other sub
seryicnt and tractable assistants. Thus
Shakespeare, in "Troilus and Cressila''
". y, makes Thersitcs in his railing mood
give this name to 1fc3selans, whom he calls
$ a thrifty sloeing horn in a chain, hanging
It his brothers Igument1,or'sl lee.n 1t was
,iso employed as a contemptnous name for
ianglers OH young women. Again,
TIE ORNAMENTAL sHoE-T1E,
ike other gay fashions. originated in France
[onson, describing a mere Englishman who
pretended to be French, thus attacks him:
Would you believe, when you this monsieur
sec, I
hat bis whole body should speak French, not
he; !
hat so much scarf of France, and hat, and {
feather.
md shoe, and tye, and garter should come
hither,
md land on me: whose face burst neverbe II
owllrd the sea?'
Hence, shoe-tye became characteristic
anie for trayeler,-a term used by Shaks-
care in Measure for Measure'' Cv 81: |
Master Fortnight, the tilter, and brave ! I
laster Shoe-tye, the great trayeler.' !
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