The Dillon tribune., 1885-05-23
Cht 1a1on %ibn''e.
..s sacred to Mystic Rites.

r,., ,ov of all others sacred to mys-
l.e :..s ~ was ever the eve of st. Agnes,
tic r''o9 OK when maidens tasted and
Jan. Watched at for signs. A passage in
teen the otfice for St. Agncs's Day in the
!ns sDs,u, Missal may have given rise to
ga ss;s cnstom: "Hnc est virgo sapiens
TINS o' nominus rigil0at4.n invent,
quaaD rho Gospel is the Parable OF the
Virgins. oen '''
custom: c,,n+ aoros.s n;pht
p,oose YOU with the promised sight,
some Of husbands, some or lovers,,
49,, wnhoH ' Character &C in ''Cupid's Whirligig"
Az ae1s, : savs. II could find in my heart
.,'-u, nrav nine times to the income and
tost ~ three St. Agnes's Ewes, SO that |
la;v 1,;rht = he sure to have him to my hus-
hasdn Aubrey gives two receipts to
.ha Ja.4lI ladies for that eve which may still
~ suo onsefrl. a. Take row of pins and pull
W ovt avery one one after another, say
w. wv naternoster and sticking a pin in
,.qn1 ,us sleeve. and you will dream Of him
!ou !on' .hall marry. Again, ''you must
IL in another country, and knit the
1sft h parter about the right-legged
IT.. seeking, Qet the other garter and
Stocking alone,) and as you rehearse
these following verses at every comma
knit knot:
-. "This knot I knit,
To know the thing, I know not yet,
The unan man that @ shall my husband be.
How he rOeS. and what he wears,
And what he does, all days and years.
Accordingly in your dream you will
ssa s him; f musician, with a lutte or
other instrument; if a scholar, with a
hook 1 or papers," and he adds a little
commencement to use this device in
the following anccdote: "A gentle
woman W. that knew confessed in nv
hearing that she used this method and
dreamed of her husband whom she had
never seen. About two or three years
after. as she was on Sunday at church,
fat our Lady's Church in Sarum,) up
pous young Oxonian in the pulpit;
she cries out presently to her sister,
This is the very face of the man that 1
saw in nv dream. Sir William Soame's
lady did the like. 1t is hardly need
full to remind readers of Keats Eve of
st. Agnes and the story of Madeline:
whose heart had brooded, all that wintry
On love. @ and wing'd St. Agnes's sanity care.
As she had heard old danes full many times
declare
Our ancestors made merry in a SINH
lar fashion on St. Valentines Day. So
Herrick, speaking of q bride, says:
'She must no more a-maying,
Or by rosebuds divine
Who'll be her Valentine"
Brand, who helps us to this quotation,
gives an amusing extract from the
Connoisssur to the same effect: Last
Friday was St. Valentines Day and the
night before got five bay leaves, and
pinned four of them to the four corners
Of my pillow, and the fifth to the mid
die; and then, if l dreamt of my sweot-
heart, Betty said we should be married
before the year was out. But to make
it more sure l boiled an egg hard, and
took out the yolk and filled it with salt,
and when ! went to bed eat it, she'll
and all, without speaking or drinking
alter it We also wrote our lovers
names upon bits of paper, and rolled
them up in clay, and put them into
water' and the first that rose up was to
9s our valentine. Would you think it?
NJ; Blossom was my man. / Law abed
ana shut my eyes all the morning till
ae came to our house, for would not
la'e seen another man before him for
a'l the world. "-Belgravia. /