Christmas Superstitions
Married men must be careful when choosing tho holly for the home decoration. If smooth , leaves predominate the wife will be mistress for the next twelvo months; if prickly, she must play "second fiddle" to her spouse. Whatever you do, allow no new leather in any form to enter your house during Christmas week; if you do it is Bure to bring ill-luck with it. If you would protect your house from fire keep tho charred remnant of this year's Yule-log to light its successor next Christmas; and whilo it is burning see that'there enters no person with bare feet or a squint, and, above all, no flat-footed woman. The first thing brought home on Christmas Day must be something green; and the first person to enter must bo a male. Even a tomcat, it is said, can be relied on to bring luck with him! Anyone-who draws water from a well on Christmas morning draws good fortune for his family. If a cricket chirrups on your hearth on the fateful day, you may look forward to tho coming year without a fear, for of all luek-brhigcrs at Yule-tide tho cricket is king. Many people keep open their cars on Christmas night for the crowing of the cock. "When tho bird of dawning singeth all night long, no spirit dare stir abroad during the coming year."
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 141, 18 December 1928, Page 21
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228Christmas Superstitions Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 141, 18 December 1928, Page 21
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