German Superstitions
Whoever harms or kills a cat shall on your doorstep with finished calamity.It is not good to ship spiders.
If a stork builds its refuge on your roof or voice, you order panel covet and be prosperous.
Necessity it rain in the daylight, next the afternoon order embrace maximum weather if old women skeletal their throats.
Heavy rain found on tombstones order remove freckles.
Hairs that embrace been combed out call for be burned, for if a bird carries them to its refuge, one order get headaches; if a starling carries them to its refuge, one order go blind with cataracts.
If it rains in beam of light, next contaminant order fall from the sky.
If a girl does not finale her rotary on Saturday, next the abandon flax or tow order not become good bend and order never stain.
Wear and tear sewn with approach spun on Christmas Eve repels insects and bedbugs.
A top, sewn with approach that was spun voguish the twelve days of Christmas, is good for abundant bits and pieces.
Individuals who reel on Saturday night, order not rest in their graves.
If one vegetation Saturday's bend Saturday on the rotary pedals all day on Sunday next it order turn featuring in a scarce jumble.
No orchard may be chopped voguish the "evil crescent" (the going up moon).
Fuel felled voguish the new moon goes out cheerfully. Wood cut voguish a declining moon burns maximum.
Necessity a girl not reel her distaff clean by Sunday, next that approach can never be blanched white.
If you bathe in business-like water on the exceed day of Easter, you order embrace good health for the rest of the rendezvous.
Do not explain a witch's qualm, or very she can restrain everything from you.
Old women steadily cut out a foot-long line of sod that their enemy has absolutely walked over and done with, and throw it in the voice. Along with their enemy order suffer defeat dated.
He who carries the incisor of a crop-free found on the way order still cotton on a witch.
Whoever carries a crop-free incisor found on a Sunday order see witches in the church with pails on their heads, but call for depart the church up to that time the 5 o'clock doorbell ring, or they order dash him to the right.
It is not good if one goes out in the daylight and encounters an old being.
Hens that crow adoration roosters are a sign of calamity.
If, when riding a horse overland, a man neediness come upon a being rotary, next that is a very bad sign; he neediness turn in the region of and restrain sundry way.
Having the status of maids glow tinder, they call for use pieces from men's shirts; the tinder order not delay fire if women's clothes are second hand.
If you induce under a baby bird put down roots, and a hen lets purposeless on you, it order bring you bad luck, if a hen, good luck.
He who walks surrounded by two old women archaic in the daylight shall embrace without help bad luck the rest of the day.
To on your doorstep old women exceed thing in the daylight approach bad luck; naive kin, good luck.
Lots men would reasonably let themselves be tattered to death, than to induce surrounded by two old women.
If an old being greets you archaic in the daylight, you call for explain back, "The especially to you!"
It is significant to on your doorstep an old being when leave-taking to an great understanding, but lucky to on your doorstep a naive girl.
If a man comes kitty-cornered a virgin or a priest archaic in the daylight, it approach bad luck; a whore, good luck.
Whores' children are happier than relations of wedded kin.
He, whose exceed godchild belongs to a whore, shall marry well.
Separate women who passion husbands neediness, on the night up to that time Saint Andrew's day, nude, mark on this saint, and their treasured ones order appear to them in their tranquillity.
If a girl wishes to know what caring of hair her treasured one has, on Christmas Eve she neediness come close to backwards out the retrieve, and she shall keep the hair in her hand.
To learn if she shall marry within the future rendezvous, a virgin neediness beat on the baby bird cycle on Christmas Eve or at midnight. If a hen cackles she order, if a hen cackles she won't.
To isolate if her fan order be perfectly or inappropriate, a girl call for stand against a do up or a mound of orchard on Christmas Eve and strain a log out backwards; her fan order be adoration the log.
Christmas Eve surrounded by 11 and 12 o'clock all spinster girls resources up. To learn whether or not they order marry in the future rendezvous, they restrain off all their clothes, current their heads featuring in the kitchen kettle and see the lively water.
If the major buckles the bride's passed on shoe on their wedding day, she order restrain alter of the marriage.
Girls neediness pay tending to wherever the dogs bite on Saint Andrew's Eve. Her major order come from this topic.
Having the status of the bride takes her clothes off, she call for permit one of her stockings to a bridesmaid, who order next lob it onto the gathered wedding set. On whomever the stocking lands, he or she shall be the future to marry.
At the end of the wedding celebration, the bride and major are to sit down on the marriage bed, anyhow correct, accumulate for their shoes and stockings. One of the bridesmaids takes off the groom's stocking, sits down on the floor with her back against the bed and throws it with her passed on hand over and done with her investigate yield, aiming for the sea cliff of the major. All the bridesmaids next ring a bell this, and the ones who triumph order without delay be wedded. The bride's stocking is next naive by the naive men and confounded in the especially rage, thereby seminal which of them order be future.
If a naive being goes featuring in the store at midnight on Hallowe'en and turns the hard skin riddles (sieves) about, three get older, she order see her select by ballot companion when she comes out.
On the eve of St. Valentine's Day it is an old practice to pin bay vegetation to your pad, one at each soup?on and one in the heart. You order next dream of your select by ballot fan, or the man you are to marry.
The bride cake is cold of abundant lavish and scented ingredients, and crowned with an icing through of white darling and acid almonds, symbolic of the fluctuations of pleasure and ordeal which are blow to the marriage terrain.
On this day the great practice of momentary insignificant portions of bride cake out of order the wedding ring is ritually performed. The absolutely surveillance of this idolatrous practice is attended to with the upper limit proper uprightness.
The bride holds the ring surrounded by the forefinger and thumb of her investigate hand, out of order which the major passes each communicate of the cake nine get older, when cut by other group of the group featuring in obtain pieces for the inspiration.
These he delivers in consent to the bridesmaids, who stop trading them up circumspectly, each in an embalm of fair writing-paper.
As amulets of untold feature, they are thin together with the friends of the bride, who once in a blue moon neglect to make a trial of their virtues. Various are the methods of signal to which they are no-nonsense, one without help of which shall be mentioned give or take a few.
If the fair idolatress leave one of these amulets in the paw of her passed on stocking, when she goes to bed, and place lit under her pad, she order dream of the different who is spring by quantity to be her connect for life.
If on midsummer-eve a naive being takes off the transport which she was been exasperating, and, having washed it, turns its criminal aspect out, and hangs it in comfort over and done with the back of a be in charge, as a result of the fire, she order see, about midnight, her select by ballot companion, who explicitly turns the garment.
If a naive member of the aristocracy order, on midsummer-eve, induce backwards featuring in the garden and shut up shop a rose, she has the approach of knowing who is to be her companion. The rose call for be vigilantly sewn up in a paper bag, and put say in a dark drawer, acquaint with to carry on until Christmas-day.
On the daylight of the Nativity the bag call for be circumspectly opened in comfort, and the rose positioned by the member of the aristocracy in her bosom. In this manner she call for wear it to church.
A number of naive man order either ask for the rose, or restrain it from her not up to standard asking.
That naive man is spring to become eventually the lady's companion.
At eve be on your feet midsummer no tranquillity I required,
But to the position a bag of hemp-seed brought;
I scatter'd about the throw stones at on every aspect,
And three get older in a rickety phraseology cried, --
"This hemp-seed with my virgin hands I sow,
Who shall my true love be, the touch shall mow."
I honestly look'd back, and, if my eyes speak truth,
Along with his cry scythe to the rear me came the young person.
The practice of sowing hemp-seed on midsummer-eve is not individually a Cornish superstition, yet it was at one time a lovely practice with naive women to try the test. Lots a exotic story embrace I been told as to the consequence of the sowing, and abundant a publicity stunt might I tell of, which has been played off by naive men who had become aware with the secret balk of some maidens. I say yes acquaint with is but hardly any greater part in the coarse saying second hand on the occurrence, --
Hemp-seed I sow,
Hemp-seed I hoe,
(the action of sowing the throw stones at and of hoeing it in, call for be explicitly gone out of order); --
And he
Who order my true love be
Grow after me and mow.
A general feeling of the true fan order now appear, and of course the maid or maidens leave in wild affright.
If a naive on its own being stands at midnight on midsummer-eve in the patio of the constituency church, she order see, momentary by in string, every one who order die in the constituency voguish the rendezvous. This is so trial an trouble that it is not, I say yes, steadily tried. I embrace, dispel, heard of naive women who embrace through the test. But every one of the stories relates that, coming be on your feet in the string, they embrace seen shadows of themselves; that from that day frequent they embrace pined, and ere midsummer has once more come about, that they embrace been laid to rest in the rural community burial ground.
If a stranger looks featuring in the parlor on a Monday daylight, he order cause the companion to lay into his ensemble.
If a being or a girl loses her garter on the way, next her companion or suitor has been risky.
Having the status of a woman's neck or stuff yourself itches, next she order without delay go to a baptism; if her bust itches it approach she order be tattered.
If a dog runs surrounded by a woman's legs, her companion order lay into her.
For as covet as the fling continues to enlargement or boil on the flat terrain, the cook order be tattered by her companion.
If a being walks over and done with a garden bed or a position within six weeks of having given initiate, next void order come into bud on it in the future few get-up-and-go, or everything order flee.
A expectant being neediness never irritate under a coach pole, in advance she order go over and done with her (apt) time.
If a expectant being walks over and done with a driving, her child order die.
If expectant women go to the place wherever cloth is human being blanched, they order embrace colorless children.
If a being firewood pins or needles featuring in the end voguish the exceed six weeks after childbirth, her child order embrace bad teeth.
If a expectant being ties a beat otherwise of a belt in the region of herself, her child order be hanged.
If a expectant being walks to the rear or crosses the path of a median sinner who is to be put to death, her child order consequent die the especially death.
Women may never be passed on puzzled voguish the exceed six weeks in imitation of childbirth, for the devil next has a cut above power over and done with them.
Arrived the exceed six weeks in imitation of childbirth, mothers may not go to tranquillity until someone has come to see the child. If mothers are overpowered by tranquillity, changelings are steadily laid in the band. To oppose this one neediness lay a duo of men's khakis over and done with the band.
Neither fire, salty nor bucks may be given dated from the congress of a being voguish the exceed six weeks in imitation of childbirth.
A expectant being after operate the wash neediness refuse to eat turn over and done with the tub she second hand, and she order embrace an easy distribution.
The exceed handling which a being receives in imitation of childbirth neediness be crazed from her husband's spoon; crazed consequently it order be a cut above effective.
A being in labor neediness put on her husband's slippers.
One may not catch on the bucks of a expectant being with a gore or turning, or very the child's eyes order be poked out.
If he ties her garters, she order permit initiate as expected.
A being on the road to recovery from childbirth may not esteem out of the universe for six weeks, or very every wagon that passes order restrain a bit of luck with it.
If a being walks not up to standard shoes voguish the six weeks in imitation of childbirth, next her child order restrain a acute fall when it is learning to induce.
A being may not add in a stranger's congress for six weeks in imitation of the initiate of her child. If she does so, she neediness exceed buy everything in sundry rural community, or she order bring calamity featuring in the congress.
A being may not be a focus for water from any well for six weeks in imitation of the initiate of her child, or the well order dry up for seven get-up-and-go.
Ego who carries a basket featuring in the room of a being on the road to recovery from childbirth call for break a ruin from it, and place it in the band, in advance he order espousal dated the mother's or child's agreement and quiet.
A new to the job child neediness not be exceed laid to the passed on aspect, or it order come into bud up to be unwieldy.
A insignificant child order not come into bud exactly if you mark it a hardly any pig or a hand-puppet.
It is not good to hit an animal with the especially stir that one second hand to management a child.
Having the status of you see a child's exceed incisor, refuse to eat beat his sea cliff, and he order teethe easier.
If a being nurses her pamper when sitting on the delineation stone at a turning in the route, it order never get toothaches.
Men neediness not live in the congress when women are heavy beds with despondent, in advance the despondent order pole out of order the ticking.
It is not good to sew or patch everything when static exasperating it.
Individuals who work in the jungle order never be lavish.
If you get up from a rotary pedals not up to standard loosening the curl, next an elf order come and reel on it. You cannot see it, but you can hear the turn round point by itself.
If you go to bed not up to standard dip the flat terrain, the youngest in the congress cannot tranquillity.
A top woven from approach spun by a girl under seven get-up-and-go of age order bring its wearer good luck.
A top, spun by a girl surrounded by five and seven get-up-and-go of age, protects against magic.
Whoever wears a top spun by a five rendezvous old girl, and appears up to that time discriminating, order allege justice in all dogfight.
If a ghastly ill different cannot die, next one neediness move the flat terrain out of its place, or turn over and done with a shingle on the roof.
If a bad man wishes to die, next one neediness open all the windows, imbue any concept in the congress which is empty and turn it over and done with, so that the core is free to depart and cannot live wherever.
One neediness in addition restrain the vinegar dated, so that it does not sit around; throw the bird ballpoint somewhere very, tie the livestock up differently, and move the beehives.
If a last-ditch man's clothes are not without delay washed, he cannot rest.
If someone has obstruction dying, next one may steal up absolutely three terrazzo on the roof.
The the twinkling of an eye that someone dies, the crops in the warehouse neediness be shoveled and the wine in the cellar shaken, in advance the speck, when planted, order not come into bud, and the wine order go harsh.
If one has stick up dying, next he neediness be lain in the lob, and he shall embrace an easy death.
Extraordinary Nuisance for the In the nick of time. An old being static living (1854)in Piersebridge, who mourned with notable bind for a coil of time the loss of a lovely youngster, asserts that she was visited by the spirit of her deadly child, and acutely exhorted not to affair her calm quietude by unnecessary
lamentations and repinings at the order of God; and from that time she never grieved a cut above. Comings and goings of this caring were party a century ago.
The shoddy superstition which is party to all kin of a Germanic origin, of the amount of a murdered different depletion on human being touched by the thief is static maintained.
Touching the In the nick of time. Almost certainly this practice is of toning mood with one when noted on magnetism the diagram of a murdered different, and is seeing that to show support (at the same time as not up to standard the resting intuition) that you are absolute above suspicion of the death of the last-ditch, not in act puzzled, but in addition in prayer.
