If, at a social gathering, a bachelor or maid were placed inadvertently
betwixt a man and his wife, the person so seated would be married within
a year.
If a person in rising from table overturned his chair, this shewed that
he had been speaking untruths.
To feel a cold tremor along the spine was a sign that some one was
treading on the spot of earth in which the person so affected would be
buried.
If a person spoke aloud to himself, it was a sign that he would meet
with a violent death.
If a girl married a man the initial letter of whose name was the same as
her own, it was held that the union would not be a happy one. This
notion was formulated into this proverb--
"To change the name and not the letter.
Is a change for the worse, and not for the better."
If thirteen people sat down to dinner, the first who rose from table
would, it was said, either die or meet with some terrible calamity
within a year's time.
When burning caking coal it often happens that a small piece of fused
matter is projected from the fire.
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