29, Jul, 2010

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To see your future husband in your dreams, hardboil an egg, cut it in half, discard the yolk, and fill the egg halves with salt. Then sit on something upon which you have never sat before, eat the halves, and walk to bed backwards. You will dream that your future husband comes to you carrying a cup of water. If the cup is of silver or gold, you will be wealthy; if it is of glass, moderately rich; but if it is of tin, you will be poor. And if you have the misfortune to help yourself to a drink in the dream, rather than waiting for your husband-to-be, you will not be married. To determine the occupation of your future husband, grate a hazelnut, nutmeg, and walnut, and mix these with sufficient butter and sugar to make a paste. Make small pills out of the paste, and before going to bed at night swallow nine of them. If you dream of wealth, you will marry a gentleman; of white linen, a clergyman; of darkness, a lawyer; of noises, a tradesman or laborer; of thunder and lightning, a soldier or sailor; and of rain, a servant.

Spilling ftour on the front of your dress while baking means that your husband will be a drunkard. "I know this is so, for I never bake unless I get flour all over myself, and my husband drinks anything he can get."

On St. John's Day, a maiden breaks an egg into a tumbler half filled with water at early dawn, and places it in the window where it remains untouched until sundown. At that time the broken egg is supposed to have assumed a special shape, in which the ingenious maiden sees dimly outlined the form of her future lord, or some emblem of his calling.

"When I was a girl, one night when the bells were ringing out the old year and the new one in, I got out of bed and got a glass one half full of water and put the white of an egg in it, and set the glass in the window. Did not say a word. Then went back to bed. In the morning when I got up, I found a perfect ship in the glass, and I married a sailor,"

If you see a yellow bird on a holiday, you will marry a rich man.
If you see a bluebird on a holiday, you will marry a poor man.
If you see a redbird on a holiday, you will marry a sailor.
If you see a sparrow on a holiday, you will marry a man in love with a small house.

If you walk with a gentleman for the first time, and have on new shoes and go over a bridge, you will marry him.

If a gentleman and lady are riding in a carriage and are tipped out they will be married.

If a young man rescues a girl from drowning he will marry her.

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