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Rh duty; old song on the subject, 39; “hot-pots” offered at Whitburn; pouring boiling water over doorstep (Yorkshire); strewing sand on pavement at Newcastle, 40; rubbing the jilted with pease-straw in Cumberland; unlucky not to change initial of surname; bride’s elder sisters must dance without shoes; racing for a ribbon (Yorkshire), 41; “firing the stithy” at a stingy bride; woman must not hear her banns published: deaf and dumb children the penalty; crossing the bride’s stockings; hair low on forehead, called the “widow’s peak:” presages widowhood; first to sleep on wedding night, first to die; loss of ring causes loss of husband’s affection; the breaking forebodes his death; first to kneel at the altar, first to die; Basque husband kneels on fold of wife’s dress, 42