Bound the Sanctums.

Otago Witness, Issue 1456, 11 October 1879, Page 24

Bound the Sanctums.

HOW TO GET A LOVER.

In Lancashire, if the inquirer wishes to know the abpde of a lover, an apple pippin is taken between the thumb and finger, and, while moving round, squeezed out, when it is supposed to fly in the direction of the lover's houae. These words are said at the aame time : Pippin, pippin, paradise, Teli me where my true love lies ; Eaßt, west, north, or south, Pilling Brig or Cookermouth. Halllwell, in his "Popular Rhymes" (1849), says that girls formerly practiced divination with a "St Thomas' onion," which they peeled, wrapped in a clean' handkerchief, and laid under their heads, saying the following rhyme : Good St. Thomas, do mo right, And see my true love come to-night, That I may see him in the face, And him iv my kind arms embrace.

In Shropshire, to find one's future partner, the bladebone of a lamb must be procured, which is to be pricked at midnight with a penknife, and these words repeated : 'Tia not this bone I mean to pick, But my love's heart I wish to prick ; If he comes not and speaks to-night, I'll prick and prick till it be light.

In Derbyshire they have a method which it would take a bold heart to perform ; the young woman, to find out her future husband, runß round the church at midnight, as the oleck strikes twelve, repeating the following :

I sow hempseed, hempseed I bow, He that loves me best Come and after me mow. After which her destined partner is believed to follow'her. — All the Year Round.