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 Catalooiie of Brand Material.

Ring in porridge or mashed potatoes indicates next bride - - - -

Apple-paring thrown over left shoulder gives initial of future partner

Name of future partner dis- covered by touching writ- ten names blindfold.

Ditto, by holding water in the mouth and listening at neighbour's window for first time heard

Ditto, by holding piece bitten from harvest -cart in the mouth, listening as before

Colour of hair augured from hair found in a mouthful of earth from the top sod of the house-wall or from over the lintel, taken in- doors - - - -

Or from hair found in straw drawn from thatch -

Or from hair found in broken turf placed over live coal in water. . . -

Or from putting burning peat in water used for washing feet. . - -

Vision of future husband procured by placing 3 pails of water in bedroom and fastening 3 holly-leaves to nightdress

Ditto, by washing " sark " and drying it in bedroom ; he will come and turn it -

Sark must be dipped in water from a well " which brides and burials pass over " -

" From a ford where the dead and the living cross "

Left sleeve only dipt ; in south-running water

LOCALITY.

Hebrides. Lowlands, fiighlands, Hebrides.

Ihid. Ibid.

Ibid.

Aberdeen (Fraserburgh).

Orkney.

Highlands, Hebrides.

Borders Ibid.

Renfrewsh. (Eastwood, 1689).

North-east and Shetland.