Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-08-01
SOME SUPERSTITIONS.
The Curious Beliefs That Haunt
Many a Brain.
Dire Result of Opening an Umbrella In
the House-The Right Way to Hang
Observation-Disclosures
and Hoodoos.


and Hoodoos.
Any day and any place you can see
people yielding to superstitions. No
tice people walking together. See a
couple of girls going along, carefully
preventing any one from passing be-
tween them, or if one passes round
lamp-post or hitching-post how the
other will follow on the Same side
Dignified old men and women will
dodge back and follow their compan-
ions round hurried pedestrian, who
tries to save steps by passing between
them, or round some inanimate OBJ
struction, causing any number of
amusing encounters. They believe
they will have quarrel or meet with
disappointment if they allow any
thing to come between them.
Others couldn't be hired to meet any
one on the stairs, going up or down,
for fear they will be- disappointed.
Housewives have innumerable signs
by which they can foretell events. If
the dishcloth is dropped there will be
visitor. If knife is dropped, a
woman is coming; fork, man is
coming; spoon, q fool. If two
knives or forks or spoons are
put at place by mistake while
setting the table there is going to be a
wedding. If you spill salt you will
have quarrel; this can be prevented
by burning a pinch of the spilled salt
or throwing some over your left
shoulder. If a rooster crows at you
or at the door, he is playing the clair
voyant and telling you you will have a
surprising piece of news or an unex-
pected visitor. So also if you drop a
pair of scissors and they stick in
the floor you will have an unex-
pected visitor. If needle sticks in
the floor, you will get a letter. II
you see pin with the head to you,
you must surely pick it up, for you
= will have good luck, but avoid, If pos.
sible, seeing pins with the point to you,
for if you pick them up you will have
sharp luck or bad luck. You must pick
them up, however, if you see them.
II froth or little bubbles rise to the
top of cup of tea or coffee and yor
are lucky enough to catch them in 9
spoon and swallow them, you will get
money, the amount varying with the
quantity of bubbles. If you fad any
little sticks. the stems of tea leaves,
in your tea and swallow them, you
will capture new beau.
A good housewife will never SWEEP
at night If she is ever obliged to de
SO she will sweep the dirt into cor
ner, and couldn't be prevailed or
to lift it until morning. This is tC
prevent misfortune. Nor will she al
any time sweep the dirt out of hel
door. She will lift it in dustpar
and burn it. This is to keep the fam
ily possessions safe. II you break ;
dish, fate will pursue you till yo'
break two more. II you are unmar
ried and fall going upstairs, you will
not get married until the next year
and If your chair tumbles backward
your chances of matrimonial bliss fol
that year go with it. Getting out o
bed backward causes things to g
wrong for the day, while putting you
right foot out first pleases dame fort
une. You have to consult her pleas
ure in dressing yourself, too. Sh'
likes you better if you put on you
right shoe and stocking first You
change your luck if by accident you
put on garment wrong side out, anc
If you want to keep your old luck the
proper thing to do is to turn the gar
ment, and while doing so spit on
and say: For good luck or bad. "
If widow gives you a yellow CARTE
on Easter Sunday you will have sue
cess in love if you wear it around tn
left leg, and success in business II yo'
wear it around the right leg. HI
most dire misfortune results from
opening an umbrella or sunshade II
the house, and if man should go int
the betting stand at a race track VIII
his umbrella raised he would be Il
danger of being mobbed.
You will meet with a disappoint
ment if you start to go out and hav
70 return for something you forgot
unless you sit down for a minute whe'
you return. =,
You can tell yeur, fortune by tn
sensations of your own body. Whel
YOUR right ear burns some one l
Speaking good of you, and when tn
left ear burns it is evil You ca
even discover who the gossipers ar
bv moistening the lobe of The warn
car with saliva and naming a per
CON II the name you guess Is cor
rsct the ear viii cool at once. |
rour nose itches, you will have new
or company. II your right ey
;tches you will shed tears, an
II your left eye i'che
YOU will laugh. A quick ring