CHRISTMAS SUPERSTITIONS.
Among the quaint old Christmas traditions which still survive in rural Germany is one that to leave a clothesline out at this season of the year is sure to bring bad luck. On Christmas Ere thunblefuls of sand are placed side by side by members of the household, and should any of these mounds fall in the night the maker of the fallen heap is sure to die within the coming year. A fish-scale put in your purse on Christmas Day will bring you the luck :of Fortunatua, whose purs* wan never
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 305, 23 December 1903, Page 5 (Supplement)
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