Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-14

thet when before the death OF Sugugs
tus, says that the owl sang upon the
top of the cufia.s
The author OF "Areana Microcosmr'
afiirms that dogs by their bowling
portent death and caiamities is PLANE
by historic and experience" Shakes
peare, in his Henry. VI, dares to use
the custom as an accompaniment OF
birth
The owl slrieked at thy birth. an evil
sign!
time, 'N
bowls how'd, and hideous tempests
shook down trees. ~
The British Apollo in 17Os. answer
ing the question, Whether the dogs
bowling may be a fatal prognestic or
not, says: I'VE cannot determine, but
It's probable that out of a sense of
sorrow for the sickness or absence of
his master or the like, that creature
may be 50 disturbed"
A Bedfordshre womanrs son had
been stung all over with bees. And
no wonder she said, .he never told
them he was going to put them in q
new ONE, and everybody knows that
before you goes to put bees into a new
ONE you mus knock three times on
the top of the I've ana tell EN-
same as you must. tell era when any
body dies in the 'ouse. Eff you don't,
they'll be spiteful, for bees Is UNDER
standing. creatures, an knows what
You say to them.fs st
R1aaly aatc7 fG, I,,at~ ,rlsss3 l..
and an equally modern superstition. A
supefstitious belief IN cats, black and
ethefwIse. is OF great antiquity Among
the Egyptians the animals were re-
garded with the utmost reverence. and
their mummiiied remains are freauerit-
" found In the same tombs sas their
worshipers. In witeheraft and sooth-
saving cats have always played no un-
important part ~ s5f@fs3@&k e sn
The cuckoo has long been considered
as the bird OF good omen. Some Years
ago, in the north of. England Boys on
nearing the first cuckoo Would ta4se out
OF Their pockets the money they con-
tanned, and spit on it for luck. a1'he ha-
bit was not elegant, but Sir Henry Ell
lis refers to the practice in the north
efn countries in particular, 1T is vuI-
carly accounted an tlnluclxy omen. if
you have no money in your nocket
Nhen you hear the cuckoo for the first
time in a season."
III almost every country there is a.
popular belief In spectral dog, which,
aithough slightly varying in appear
ance IN different parts, always bears
the same general characteristics
Polish superstition is that whoop-
ms, cough may be cured by letting a
piebald horse breathe on the child. Ac-
/ cordins to Irish folklore. a piebald
morse Is one possessed by evil spirits.
Inc Polish superstition. indicates that
| tlese poor, ignorant mothers try to
drive out one evil by another"
Among the more ignorant Greek
country people parts Of roasted and
POWDERED lizard mixed with the hus
eahds Vine is regarded as an induce
ment to faithfulness.
The average Dutehman is delibera ia
IN motion, but you should see him hmm
| afeund when 9 piebald horse .co,,,.,s
| toward him. In the rural districts the
,ainfer protects his cattle against UGH
anu o,hef apparitions by The salt cross
ne taxes a handful of salt and istreu
III the form of a cross on the. back
| oi MS cattle, murmuring words of con-
| jury which neither himself nor any
one eise can understand. but he must
oe caretul 10 go about the business. in
certain approved fashion, which pre-
| scfibes that he begin operations IN I the
| mead of Inc near side, and go 10 the
tan, and from the tail to the head nm
and off side.