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Waupaca Paper

March 23, 1888

 

Sure Signs of Luck

 

Dream of eggs, sign of money.

Dream of snakes, sign of enemies.

If you sing before breakfast you’ll cry before supper.

Finding a horse-shoe or a four-leaved clover brings good luck.

If you cut your nails or sneeze on Saturday you do it “for evil”.

She who takes the last stitch at a quilting will be the first to marry.

If you cannot make up a handsome bed your husband will have a homely nose.

If you spill the salt someone will be “mad” with you unless you put some in the fire.

Stub your right toe, you are going where you are wanted; your left, where you are not wanted.

If the rooster crows on the fence, the weather will be fair; if on the doorstep, he will bring company.

If the first Sunday in the month is unpleasant, there will be but one pleasant Sunday during the month.

If by any chance a mourning hat or bonnet is placed upon your head you will need one of your own soon.

If your right ear burns, some one is praising you; if your left, your friends are raking you over the coals.

Returning to the house for a moment after having once started out will bring bad luck unless you sit down.

When, in dropping a fork, it strikes the floor and stands upright, it will bring a gentleman visitor; if a knife, a lady.

While at the washboard, if the suds splash and wet your clothes you are wearing, you will have a drunken husband.

If you drop your dishcloth, you will have company; also if you sweep a black mark; or if two chairs stand

accidentally back to back.

If a baby sees his face in the glass it will be the death of him.  If his nails are cut he will be a thief.  If he tumbles

            out of bed it will save his being a fool.

Break a mirror, is a sign of death.  Death is also foretold by a dog howling under the window; hearing a mourning

            Dove, a strange dove hovering about, or dreaming of a white horse.

If you see the new moon through the glass you will have sorrow as long as it lasts.  If you see it fair in the face

you’ll have a fall.  Over the left shoulder bad luck – over the right good luck.