BRIDAL SUPERSTITIONS.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13676, 18 March 1913, Page 7

BRIDAL SUPERSTITIONS.

It is interesting to note the number of shrines in Brittany dedicated to marriage.' At Ploumanach, a village lon the northern coast (a correspondent of "Country Life" says), ...there is. a shrjae piJctur&qq-ii'aiy stituatjj amjfd the rocks which the sea washes round every day. Only at low title can'one clamber over the rocks to the canopied figure of St. Guerin. When a Breton girl desires to marry she sticks a pin.in. the nose of this saint; should it drop' out within the year she believes her. desire wilj be fulfilled. On another near Douarncne?;, in the Finistore district, I came across a ©mall ehrine decorated with orange blossom im a hedgerow, where a young girl whom I bad previously seen tending her flocks was kneeling in prayer, after which she rose arid dropped a pin down; the well. By. questioning her, I fonnd.th.it it, was the custom there to drop a pin down the well before the saint, and eventually, after, the wedding corcmony, tho| bridal blossoms were brought and hung round the 'shrine.