The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-06-05

wearer against the bite Of any deg, however
vicious the dog may be, or however rosulsh
| may be the wearer's intent and appearance.
a certain crook Of the arm, too, viii defend
| one from any attack Of the watchdog; but
this bit of slight Of arm is known only to few,
and those mostly 1--WE learn who are Of very
roguish disposition. To have about house
some place Of DEPOSIT for old shoes, and therein
TO keep al the wornout leather Of the house
hold, will bring good luck to the family. 10
| lace or button one shoe ere putting on the other
! is bad luck, probably because the stepping OF
the feet would be as uneven as was the attir-
ing of the same. Hair should never be cut
from the human head if excess of good for
tune be craved.
Whereas it is beautiful portent for wood
birds to flutter in and about q house, it is a
very excellent omen for gentle, fearless little
birds to nest about dwelling.
By dreams this race, as well as all other races
| in the infancy Of their civilization, make au-
| curry of coming events. To dream of eating
| fruit out its season is fatefully ominous. And
to dream of finding hens nest full Of eggs,
none broken, is sign of coming evil. If a
person dream Of finding purse full Of money
then let him begin to make locks fast, for thiev-
ish hands are reaching for the dreamers goods.
| But if the purse found in dreams be empty,
there will be fortune left its finder. To dream
| of death signifies that a marriage is near at
| hand; if of marriage, death will soon fol-
| low the dream; all of which seem but to heap
| proof Of truth upon the adage, dreams 90 by
fast, there will be tears before night; If sing
ing before breakfast. crying will fill the sing
| ing mouth before sunset. To burn Sassafras
! wood Will make a breach and direful feuds
among the most loving of friends and families.
| a housekeeper watchful for "signs" will
ever be ready for whatever guest may come.
She will know that if a dishcloth be dropped
hungry guest will be coming. If q spider
drops halfway down on his web from the CELL
ing, and then turns back and chambers up to
aYnprrp1 have
started TO your house, but untoward circum-
stances (the breakdown" of the vehicle, per-
haps) have detained them; they may not be
expected that day. But if the insect comes
all the way to the floor, begin to cook good
dinner; the house will be filled with company.
The rooster, too, keeps a long lookout for
coming guests If he crow toward the front
door, or the back door, you can form some idea
Of the high or low degree of the new conner.
Young girls sitting meditatively before the
wood fire Of an evening may form some idea as
to who will bear them company; if a long log
should roll down from the blazing heap, tai!
man will be the visitor; if a short log roll
down, a "short statured' man will call. And
if girl can make up pretty bed-an accom-
plfshment that Ruskin says every woman
should posSess-she will be rewarded, mas
much as she will be sure to marry man with
a well-shaped nose. If, ON the contrary, her
bed-making is not approvable, the man of her
choice will have most ungainly nose. If
girl should spill handful of salt, she will not
marry during that year; or, if she earelessiy
knock over chair, she viii not in year wear
q bridal veil.
To twir chair about in the hands will
bring bad luck. To step over a broom will call
misfortunes upon one. To move o cat from
house to house is bad luck, or to move broom.
But never, in leaving a house, leave it I'M
Clearly; yet the woman must not herself scour
the floors, for that will lin some inexplicable
way be moving herself out of the house into
which she is going. A neighbor must be called
in to do the necessary securing. But the mover
may herself sweep the house and yard, then
pass out of the gate, leaving the broom with
handle toward the street Tor more properly,
road or path, for this is plantation lore), ready
to the hand of the next housekeeper who takes
possession here. This careful sweeping and
leaving the broom will both leave good luck
behind and carry good luck along with the
prudent housekeeper.
In making journey, if rabbit or any four
footed beast run across the path, it portends
evil to the traveller. Whether he be riding or
walking he must get down to the ground, and
make a cross there ere he dare move on. Hurn
back on any journey You are making If a
screech-owl cries above you'll However, an cold
hooting- owl" may foretell either good or bad
fortune, according as its three boots are given
on the right or left hand. This is an unfail-
ing sign Ito its faithful belieyers) If one goes
at night either econ or possum hunting.
Three boots to left will send any hunter home
hopeless from the chase, while three boots on
the right will bring him success. Starting to
visit neighDor, il the right foot trip while
walking, know that the visit is expected with
pleasure; but if the left foot trip, turn back or
be an unwelcome guest. But before turning
back, sit flat on the ground no prudent person
will turn square back on his tracks without
taking this precaution. And in taking a stroll,
never turn until you have reached turn of
the road or the corner of a fence.
The good farmer or gardener will do his
planting or sowing according to the waxing or
waning of the moon. He will SOW his water
melons, or peas, or beans, or corn indeed any
vegetable that bears its product above ground
ON the increase of the moon. But potatoes,
turnips, all root crops" must be planted on
the decrease of the moon to insure full gar
nering. Nor will the careful householder kill
ms supply of meat on the moons wane for
meat killed and cured on the wane will dry up
in the cooking, whereas that made ready for
storage on the wax of the moon will swell in
the % pot; At o.r,v snrinv tho folds oro brown
and sweet with upturned earth; when all the
woods are rich with penetrating odor of wild
grape blossoms, and yellow with the perfume of
crab-apple thickets, blushing with the weight of
most fragrant flowers when streams are loosed
from the cold clamping hand Of winter, note
the groups Of lahorers at their task of corn
Smelling. They are gathered about the smol-
dering fires in the humble cabins scattered over
our Widesnreadmg plantation; how careful
they are that no cob from which the planting
corn is shelled shall fall among the Goals. The
prudent wife, when the Smelling is over, will
gather into her apron all the cobs, taking care
not to leave even one to be burned, or to be
thrown perhaps where wandering stock might
set foot on it. She win carry them to some
running stream, and beneath its bed. under the
light of the growing moon, she will bury deep
the cobs, that the coming fields of corn may
be molested neither by prowling stock, nor
thievish hands, nor drought, nor "fring up
of fields. May her efforts and her faith insure
to the laborers full cropl
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