The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-06-25

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but not un.}IGfhll 96l''o e''r'n rarnrn, sting.
| dian tribes 90 not seem to know anything
| about conjurin', but they n@Ee
many signs and symbols ana
| reverence for the great spirit. READ
| the other day from one WhU WAS familiar
! with their customs, that every male chlld
| of a chief or great warrior must be nalilea
| for the first thing or object that was seen
| shortly after it's birth. The old medicine
| man walked to the door with great solem-
| nitv and ceremony and looked out, ana
| whatever he saw was the name of the child,
| whether it was flying cloud OF hole in
| the sky" or young man afraid OF ms
| horse" or Setting Bun. There was a Cher
| okee chief who lived not tar from mere
| whose name was Laughing Gal Some HI
| larious maiden was in sight when ne was
| born The ancient Jews had a custom slml-
lar in some respects. The name was CON
nected with some incident of birth. The
great lawgiver was named Moses because
| he was drawn out OF the water.
| But our superstitions are not confined to
| names. Very many sensible and educated
people Will make cross mark with the
| shoe before they turn back to get something
| thev have forgotten, some VIII spit in the
cross Some put the shovel or the poker III
the fireplace when q ScTeech OWL means
near the house. Some will not begin new
work or a Journey on Friday, and almost
everybody had rather see the new moon III
a clear sky and over the right shoulder.
For forty-tivc years [ have known a sensl-
BILE, self reliant woman who will walk to
the bacl, door to get a lucky view OF the
new moon. Her husband makes 1un Oh her
hut will do the same thing on the sly W men
we moved into present house old Aunt
Ann comforted my wife by saying mighty
fine place-mighty nice trees and all DAT
but folks say de house is haunted Tom
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house and they will make your hair stand
on end if you have got any:
'O'er all there hung q shadow and fear,
A sense of mystery the spirit d@unted,
| And said as plain as whisper in the ear
| The place is haunted
| The old poets and novelsts we're full OF
superstitions. 1.-THE Ancient Mariner the
witches in Macbeth and 1.-THE Phantom
| Ship" still charm with their mystery
| 1t is well for us that we spend the night
| in sleep, for darkness adds to our CHILDISH
| fears. Napoleon said that all men were
| towards by night, and suppose Lnerg IRE IPe
| but few men even among the saints ana me
| PHILOSOPHERS who would feel perfectly
| calm and serene while sitting on tomD
| stone dark and cloudy night. My old
| army friend, Captain HOckenhul, an Eng
| fish man by birth, told us one night by the
camp fires that when he was about eight
| cen some of the town boys bet him 2 crown
| that he wouldn't go to the charnel mousse
| after dark and bring out a skull The CHAR
| mel house was In the corner Oh the tHul CIi
| yard. 1t had no door, but had "a window
| about ten feet from the ground, and as the
| bones were taken from old graves TO make
| room for new ones the sexton hauided lhefn
| to the charnel house and threw them IN;
| for it the law that dead man hAd
no right to sleep in the ground longer IMAM
| thirty years. Hockenhuu was poor ana
had good pluck and wanted the crown very
bad So he got 81 little ladder and placed 1t
| under the window. The rascally boys had
| already been there and boosted one of
their number up to the hole and re from there ere
| corner among the bones. "Hock,' as we call
ed him in the army, felt around in the dark