The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-01-11
SuperstltiCns About Love.

From the earliest times no event In
human life has been associated with
more extensive folk lore than marriage
Beginning with love diVinations, these
are of every conceivable kind, the anx-
ious maiden apparently having left no
stone unturned in her anxiety to ascer-
tain herlot in the marriage state. Some
cut the common brake or fern just above
the root to ascertain the initials of the
future husbands name. Again, nuts
and apples are very favorite love tests.
The mode of procedure is for a girl to
place on the bars of a CRATE nut, re-
peating this incantation: iE1'*tiait,s 1i
+ 9. If he loves me, pop and fys y,ferf. d. . Y
If he hates me, lie and die.
Great is the dismay if the anxious face
of the inquirer gradually perceiyes the
nut, instead of making the hoped-for
pop, die and make no signa One means
of divination is to throw a lady-bird into
the air, and repeating meanwhile the
subjoined couplet: E5isHe3E3 5.sHg.
Fly away east, and fly away west.
Show me where lives the one like best.
Should this little insect chance to fly
in the direction of the house where the
loved-one resides, it is regarded as a
most favorable omen.-. & .ss tafIt ~ i5
Another species of love divination
once observed consisted in obtaining five
bay leaves, -four of which the anxious
maiden pinned at the four corners of her
pillow, and the fifth in the Taiddle!U IL
she was fortunate enough to dream of
her lover, it was sure sign that he
would be married to her in the course of
the year. a.. ,.fy .sa:.,s..,....+..4,. ,a.r,
III selecting the time for the marriage
ceremony precautions of every kind
have generally been taken to avoid an
unlucky month and day for the Knot to
be tied. Indeed, the old Roman notion
that the May marriages are unlucky sur
wives to this day in England. June is a
highly popular, month, Friday, on ac-
count of its being regarded as an inaq-
spicious and evil day for the commence-
ment Of any kind of enterprise, is geh-
orally avoided. ..,,
In days gone by Sunday appears to
have been popular day for marriages.
1t is, above all things, necessary that
the sun should shine on the bride, and it
is deemed absolutely necessary by very
many that she should weep on her we'd
ding day, if it be only a few tears; the
omission of such an act being considered
ominous of her future happiness.
In Sussex, a bride on her return home
from church is often robbed of all her.
pins about her dress by the single women
present, from the Belief that whoever
possesses one of them win be married IN
the course of a year, and evil. fortune
will sooner or later inevitably oyertake
the bride who keeps even one pin used
in the marriage toilet. -.
''Flinging the stocking' was an old
marriage custom in England. The
young men took the brides stockings,
and the girls those of the bridegroom.
each of whom, sitting at the, foot of the
bed, threw the stockings over their
heads, endeavoring to make it fall upon
that of the bride OF her spouse. If the
bridegroom's stockings, thrown by the
girls, fell upon the bridegroomfs head,
it was sign that they themselves would
soon be married, and similar luck was
derived from the falling Of the BRIDES
stockings thrown by the young men =
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