SUPERSTITIONS

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 278, 20 August 1938, Page 3 (Supplement)

SUPERSTITIONS

Not Always True

Mrs. Willimore Trotter Jones, of the United States, has found and saved thousands of four-leafed clovers. Nevertheless, she has been in live automobile wrecks, has lost three husbands, and has suffered so many misfortunes that her neighbours call her “Calamity Jane.” Mrs. Neville Coleman refused to eat at a table set for thirteen people. She waited until the rest were through, and then sat down alone. Halfway through the meal she was stricken with a fatal heart attack.

Lightning struck the barn of John Ingram, of Sheridan, Arkansas, destroying the structure and two mules. Putting faith in the old saw that lightning never strikes twice in the same place, Ingram rebuilt the barn in the same location. Four weeks later lightning again struck the barn and destroyed it and the new mules. General Emilio Mola, second in command with the Spanish rebels, was killed in an aeroplane crash. When peasants picked him up they found he was in his stocking feet. A brother officer explained that a gipsy had once told the general he would die with his boots on, and ho therefore always took his shoes off when ia an aeroplane.