Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-02-12

HunclhllOn OF DOMINION ana authority over her
by her father or guardian; and the receipt OF the
shoe by the Bridegroom, even Ii accidental
was an omen that the authority was trans
ferred TO him. Thus, In the Bible, the receiving
ing or accepting dominion or ownership; the
giving back the shoe. the symbol of rejecting
or resigning it. In Deuteronomy, for example.
me ceremony OF a widow rejecting her hus-
pand brother In marriage Is by loosing his
shoe from Oh his foot; and In Ruth we ind that
III was the custom Ia Israel concerning chang
Ing that man plucked of bis shoe and delIV-
were evidently not unknown to the early
Christians When the Emperor vladimir made
proposals OF marriage TO the daughter of Rag
take Off her shoe TO the SOD OF slave" There
is passage In Gregory OF Tours where, spea
Ing OF eSpousals. he says: 1.-THE bridegroom
having given ring to the flanc&, presents her
with shoe"
LCTHER At WEDDING.
In Michelet's life CT Luther" we are told
that the great reformer was at the wedding OF
Jean LATTE After supper was over he con.
Quoted the bride to oed. and told the bride.
groom that according to common custom he
ought TO be master In his house when bis wife
was not there; and, for symbol. he took OF
the husbands shoe and put IL upon the head of
the bee, "afn Qu,l prit aintsi Ia domination ct
government" Throwing the old shoe after
the welded pair was also no doubt intended,
We are told. as az augury OF long life to the
bride. Another reason Is given IN the SUP.
joined old Rhyme:
When Britans bold
Welded OF DID,
sandals were backward thrown,
The pair to tell
That Ill or well,
Inc act was all their own.
SH0E THROWING IN ENGLAND
In some parts OF Kent The manner OF shoe
throwing Is somewhat curious. 1t appears
that after the departure OF tue bride and
bridegroom the single ladies' are drawn up
10 one row and the bachelors In another.
as iaI as possible. which the ladies run for,
the winner II, being supposed to have the first
shoe at the gentlemen, when the arst who Who
gets 1t Is believed to have the same chance Of
inatrnlony. Wala, in his "HStory Of the
Isle OF Man. abiding to this custom, tells us
IL WaA customary to throw an old shoe
after him, and In like manner an old
shoe after the bride on leaving her home
either Of the brides shoes could be taken of
by any spectator on her way from church ft
had to be ransomed by the bridegroom In
Yorkshire the ceremony OF shoe-throwtng was
known as ''thrashfng.r and the older the shoe
the greater the luck. Referring to the CONT
nent. The Germans have custom Of thr owing
ding. The person Wae succeeds In getting It Is
considered to have every prospect or a Speedy
marriage. Thorpe mentions q custom In his
North German Mythology" for the mother of
the bride to strew dill In her shoes previous to
her going to the church. saying:
Dill, cease not from Will
Bait, relax not.
The bride and bridegroom also strew dill and
salt In their shoes as protection against witch.
craft. Among the PeTuylans it was formerly
customary when man wished to marry to 60
consent, ne put ON her foot particular kind of
shoe, IN which he led her to his home II she
had never been married before the shoe was of
wool: II a widow, 1t was OF rush.
~RY no. AryrU
While speaking OF shoes In relation to mar.
riage we may quote the following anecdote re-
corded by correspondent OF Notes and Queries.
lance informs lne that he heard himself thus
mathematical when leaving his native village
with bis bride, he refused TO comply with the
eXtortionate demands OF an Irish beggar:
Then It's bad luck goes Wild yer
For my shoe toss;
An ye n1Yer come back,
Twill be no great loss.
Many other argurie5 are still gathered from
shoes. Thus, In Dorsetshlre and other parts
girls use their shoes as means Of divtning who
their future husbands are to be. At night, on
going to bed, girl places her shoes at right
angles to one another, In the form OF a T, re-
peatiDg the following rhyme: =
Hoping this night my =
- -ille lore to see,
.p.a,v my shoes in the form OF at.
Among the various charms tn which the shoe
mas oeen found highly efticaciOus may be men,
TONED one practiced In the north OF England.
here the peasantry, to cure cramp, are In the
atna OF laying their across to avert It. Mrs
published In the Folk Lore Record tells ms or
all OLD woman who was at a complete loss to
understand why her rheumatism twas so un-
common pad, Tor she had put her shoes In the
form Oh q cross every night by the SIDE of her
oeo ever since she felt the first twinge." A cure
ior ague III the same county consists In wear
log leaf Of tansey In the shoe.
VARIOUS sUPERSTfTIoNs
&c otto
superstltlous persons TO which shoe they put on
urst; IN allusion to Which Butler, in his "Hudi-
bras, says;
Augustus. having b oversight
Put on his left shoe fore his right,
HAD Ike to have been slain that day
By soldiers mutin'yng for pay.
Scott. too. In his discovery OF Wttchcraft. +"
tells us how she that receiveth am,scha nee viii
consider whether he put not on his shirt the
wrong side outwards, or his shoe on his right
loot An old writer, speaking OF the customs
o.; o, Jews, says: some OF them observe, in dress
ing themselves In the morning, to put on the
right stocking and right shoe first, without
ISllg IL; then afterward to put on the left and
SO return TO the right; that 80 they may begin
ana END With the right side, which they account
TO be the most Fortunate" In Sussex. to mt
on the left shoe before right Is considered an
lnfallible sign OF evil to come. and q SufroIk
doggerel respecting the wear OF shoes" teaches
US the following:
Trip at the toe: live to see woe.
wear at the size; live to be bride.
Wear at the ball; live to spend all.
wear at the heel; 1--we to save deal
curious to say, the shoe has even entered
into the superstft1ons associated with death.
according the Aryan traditions, the greater
part or the way from the land of the living to
tnaI OF death lay through morasses and vast
mooIs overgrown with furze and thorns. That
the dead might not pass over them barefoot. a
pair OF shoes was laid with them In the grave.
Hence funeral is, We are told by Mr.. Kelly in
his 'Indo- European Folk LORE stili called
dead shoe" in the Henneberg district; and
ID Scandinavia shoe itself Is called ahel-
TIKI SHOOTING HORN.
The sh0efng horn, from its convenient usa in
drawing On 3 tight shoe, was. says Mares, ap-
Piled In a Jocular metaphor. to other subservt.
emit ana tractabie assistants. Thus. Shakes
peare. In sTroilus and Cressida. makes Tner.
s!tes, IN ais rallytng mood, give this name to
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