The Grenada gazette., 1889-03-28
NOtiONS ABOUT EGGS.
Interesting Superstitibns Connected with
Tnis Fauni lar Article of Diet.

Interesting Superstitibns Connected with
Tns Fsmi lar Article of Diet.
ITO hang an egg laid on Ascension
Day in the roof Of a house" says
Reginald Scot in 1884, 'preserveth the
nme from all hurts" Probably this
was written with an eye TO the hurts"
arising from witchcraft, in connection
with which eggs were supposed TO pos
scss certain mysterious powers In
North Germany, If you desire to see
the ladies OF the broomstick on May
Day, their festival. you must take an
egg laid on Mandy Thursday and
stand where four roads meet. or
else you must go into church
on Good Friday, but come out be
fore the blessing. 1t was formerly
quite an article Of domestic b lief that
the shells must be broken after eating
eggs, lest the witches should sail out to
sea in them; or. as Sir Thomas Browne
declared. lest they should draw or
pick their names therein and v"ni-
fciously mischief the person who had
partaken Of the egg North Germans,
ignoring this side OF the question, say:
BREAK the shells or you will get the
ague, and Netherlanders advise you
to secure yourself against the attacks
Of this disagrceable visitor by eating
on Easter Day couple OF egg which
were Laid on Good Friday.
Scotch fishers, who may be rorE0r"d
among the most -uper-titlo4s "f tnIK-,
believe that contrary winds and much
vexation Of spirit will result u haF.r-
eggs on board with tIem; while in IT,,
west OF England it IS considered very
ualuciy to bring birds egra j.'a the
house, although they may be hung UP
with impuuity outsil'. Mr.. GrcEr".
in his "Folk-IOre q the Northeast q
S"nr .and gives us som" carioua par
ticulars concerning chickens aud the
bc,t method Of securing -@':>-
ctory brood TIE hrn, it er.nI7,
should be set on an odd num-
Der Of eggs. or the rhanc.s are : al
most, If not all. will be added "a
mou"nful prospect for the hen vii.
also, they must be placed under the
mother bird after sunset, or the ir,-
ems viii be blind. II the woman vino
p rfOrms this Office carries the e--,
wrapped up in her chemise the result
will be hen birds; II she VI = 4 ma /.
hat, cocks. Furthermore, il is a. we'll
for hvr to repeat a so@; Of chtr.n: 'A'
in thcgeethir-A' oot th"-~ethir.
There are many farmers wiz $ even
in the present day, who would n"y"r
dream Of allowing egr. tu be bro1 rlt
inlJ Il" hous o" taken ONt after da"6.
this being deemed extremely uu.uc v.
E.,hbSs. Deue uen iuHs Lne cNSe OF
f. rmer's wife in Rutland who received
setting OF dncEs e--s from " neigh
Dor at Hine o'clock at night. Il ca"
not imagine how she coo,d have hem
50 foolish" said the good woman,
mech distressed and her visitor. G1Or
inquiry, WIS told tAat dTcks eCE-
brought into a house after sunset
would never he hatrhrl. \
Lincolnshire supc"stitution declares
that if eggs are carried oy"l
running water they vii. b'
useless for setting purposes, willie iu
Aberdeen there is al Idea prevailing
among the country 70 K that should il
thund r a short time before chic ems
are hatchcd they will die in n" She'll.
The sam" wiseaCrcs may be credited
with the notion that the year the farm
cr's guide wife presents him with an
addition to the family is bad season
for the poultry yard. "Ba!rn> an
chuckens." say they. "diuna thrive in
ane year" The probable explanation
being that the guide wife, taken UP
with the care of her BARN, has less
time to attend to the rearing Of the
"rhurkchs.'
Besides the divination practiccd with |
the white OF an egg, which certainly &.
appears OF vague and unsatisfactory
character, another species OF fortune. /
telling with eggs is in vogue in North, .
on the eve Of st. Agnes \
N ideu desirOus OF knowing " hat her .
future lord is like is enjoin"d to hol !
IN egg, after having spent the whole
day fasting and in silence. then 10 "X- /.