ANCIENT ITCHING OMENS.
If the right palm itches, you are about to receive money ; if the left palm itches, you will have to pay some money ; if the knee itches, you will soon kneel in a strange church ; if the sole of your foot itches, you are going to walk on strange ground ; if your elbow itches, you will sleep with a strange bedfellow ; if the ear itches, you will hear strange news. To cure itching in the palm of the hand Rub it on your eye, ’Twill go by and bye ; Rub it on wood, ’Twill sure to come good. It is a remarkable fact that these beliefs have been common all over the world from time immemorial, and are repeated at the present day.
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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XIV, Issue 830, 1 February 1906, Page 27
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126ANCIENT ITCHING OMENS. New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XIV, Issue 830, 1 February 1906, Page 27
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