QUEER SUPERSTITIONS.
At Monte Carlo, tho moment news gets out that a ruined gambler has committed suicide, there is a rush to tho tables. Tho popular superstition is that at such a time the plunger is sure to win. Another card superstition is that if ono player borrows money from another, ho also borrows that player’s lack. Salt was a very scarce and costly commodity up to a century or so ago. It was tremendously taxed. Ilcnco the superstition that spilling salt will cause a guarrel. The case is the same ns regards the ill-luok of breaking a looking-glass.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12405, 24 August 1918, Page 15
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99QUEER SUPERSTITIONS. Star (Christchurch), Issue 12405, 24 August 1918, Page 15
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