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Marriage: days of week bring varying luck; Durham rhymes; Thursday auspicious in Scandinavia—in England and Germany the reverse; Friday most unfortunate, 33; also any day in Lent and the month of May in Scotland; Sir Walter Scott respected the prejudice in his daughter’s case; statistics of Glasgow marriages in 1874; proverb, “Marry in May, rue for aye;” unlucky for swine to cross the path of wedding party—proverb, “The swine’s run through it;” presence of bride’s mother inauspicious; a wet day also; green not worn lest fairies should resent the insult, 34; exclusion of all green things from Scotch wedding dinner; fowls indispensable—brides have side-bone; rubbing shoulders with bride or bridegroom an augury of speedy marriage; the next bride indicated by bride’s gift of cheese; struggle for the bride’s knife; “shapings” of wedding dress used in divinations; bride should wear something borrowed, 35; short-bread thrown over bride’s head on entering her new home—pieces secure dreams; plate of cake thrown in Yorkshire—augury from fate of plate; ladle and door-key placed in husband’s hands, tongs and keys in wife’s (Scotland); dreaming on wedding-cake; throwing a shoe: its symbolism, 36; Swedish bridal Folk-lore; wild mirth in the North on the occasion—“running the braize or brooze,” 37—firing guns; offering handful of money to clergyman; leaping over stone at Belford—the “louping” or “petting” stone; over bench at Embledon; bride jumping over stick (Coquetdale) and bridal party over stool—the parting-stool at Bamburgh, 38; kissing the bride the parson’s privilege and