The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-08-23
SOME SUPERSTITIONS.
Tho Curious Beliefs That Haunt
Many a Brain
Dire Result OF Opening an Umbrella in
the House-The Right Way 20 Hang
. Horsoshoe-Ma-cots
and Hoodoos-

Horsoshoe-Na-cots
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 IL one passes round a
lamp-pOst or hitching-pOst how the
other will follow on the same side
DiEuifcd old men and women will
dodge back and follow their compan-
ions round n hurried pedestrian, who
tries TO save steps by passing between
them. or round some inauimate OBJ
struction, causing any number OF
amusing encounters They believe
they will have quarrel or meet with
disappointment il they allow any
thing to come between them
Others couldn I be hired to meet any
one on the stairs, going up or down,
Tor fear they will DO disappointed.
House wives have innumcrable signs
by which they can foretelI events If
the dishcloth is dropped there will be
= visitor. II knife is dropped.
woman Is coming; fork, a man is
coming; q spoon, fool. IL two
knives or forks or spoons are
put at place by mistake while
setting the table there is going to be a
wedding. II you spill salt you viii
have quarrel; this can be prevented
by burning a pinch of the spilled salt
or throwing some over your left
shoulder. II 4 rooster crows at You
or at the door, he is playing the clair
voyant and telling you you viii have a
surprising piece of news or an uncx-
pected visitor. So also II you drop n
pair Of scissors and they stick in
the floor you will have an unex-
pected visitor. II a needle sticks in
the floor, you will get q letter. II
you see pin with the head TO YOU.
you must surely pick it up, for you
VIII have good luck, but avoid, If pos
sible. seeing pins with the point TO you,
for il you pick them up you will have
sharp luck or bad luck You must pick
them up, however, II you see them.
II froth or little bubbles rise to the
top of a cupiof tea or coffee and you
spoon and swallow them. you will get
money. the amount varying with the
quantity of bubbles. II you fad any
little sticks, the stems of tea leaves,
in your tea and swallow them, you
will capture a new beau.
A good housewife will never sweep
at night. II she is ever obliged to do
so she will sweep the dirt into a cor
ner, and couldn't be prevailed on
10 lift ii until morning. This is to
prevent misfortune. Nor will she at
any time sweep the dirt out of her
door. She will lift it in u dustpan
and burn 1t. This is TO keep the fam
lily possessions safe. IL you break n
dish, fate will pursue you till you
break two more II you are unmar-
ried and fall going upstairs, you will
not get married until the next year;
and il your chair tumbles backward
your chances OF matrimonial bliss for
that year go with II. Getting out OF
bed backward causes things to 90
wrong for the day, while putting your
right foot out first pleases dame fort
une- You have to consult her pleas
ure in dressing yourself, too. She
likes you better If you put on your
III SAAbt ~-AAA ENONAAAH AEsL- lou
change your luck If by accident you
put on garment wrong side out. and
if you want 10 keep your old luck the
proper thing TO do is TO turn the gar
meut, and while doing so spit on it
and say: For good luck or bad"
II a widow gives you yellow garter
on Easter Sunday you will have sue
cess in love IL you wear it around the
left leg, and success in business IL you
wear it around the right leg. The
most dire misfortune results from
opening an umbrella or sunshade in
the house, and IL man should go into
the betting stand at race track with
his umbrella raised he would be in
danger OF being mobbec.
You will meet with a disappoint-
ment IL you start TO go out and have
10 return for something you forgot,
unless you sit down for g minute when
you return
You can tell your fortune by the
sensations Of your own body. When
your right ear burns some one is
speaking good OF you, and when the
left ear burns il is evil You can
even discover who tho gossipers are
by moistening the lobe OF the warm
ear with saliva and naming n per
SON II the name you guess is cor
rect, the ear viii cool at once. II
your nose itches, you will have news
or company. II your right eve
itches you will shed tears, and
II your left eye itches
you will laugh. A quick ring
ing in either ear that overwheIIns
sound is called a death knelI, and
precedes news of a death. Hyour inner
arm itches at the elbow joint, you will
have an insleeP or an Outsleep. That
Is, some ono viii sleep at your house
who IS not accustomed to sleeping
there, or a member Of the family viii
be away all night III your leg itches
at the back under the knee, you will
go on Journey. and If the sole Of