Page:Folk-lore - A Quarterly Review. Volume 23, 1912.djvu/368

346 To dream of fleas is lucky.

If you dream of anything black and white, someone you know will die.

If you fall while going downstairs, you will not be married that year.

If a girl uses any cooking utensil in preparing one meal and forgets to wash it till the next is due, she will die an old maid.

If she cuts the ball of her thumb, she will lose her lover.

If two people, when unfolding a table-cloth or similar article between them, are clumsy and bungle the job, neither will marry that year.

If, when going to the door to open it, you take hold of the hinge side instead of the handle, il n'y aura pas de garçon dans la maison (no-one will come a-courting?).

A sneeze before breakfast means that visitors are coming.

To drop a knife means a male visitor, but a fork a female visitor.

If potatoes stick to the bottom of the pot while boiling, visitors are coming.

To put on a table-cloth, or the like, wrong side up, means a change in the weather.

Putting on clothes wrong side out may mean the same, or may presage bad luck.