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| Folklore Prophecies, Charms, and Incantations Prophecies Never tell your dreams fasting, and always tell them first to a woman called Mary. Take a piece of bride-cake and pass it three times through a wedding ring, then sleep on it, and you will see in a dream the face of your future spouse. In whatever quarter you are looking when you first hear the cuckoo in the season, you will be traveling in that direction before the year is over. If a cock comes on the threshold and crows, you may expect visitors. The young girls visit neighboring gardens at night, blindfolded, to tear up the cabbages by the root. If the one first seized is a closed, white cabbage, an old man is the destined husband; but if an open, green head, then a young lover may be hoped for. They also make a cake of flour, mixed with soot and a spoonful of salt, bake it, and eat it. It will cause thirst, and if a man offers a drink at the time, the girl will assuredly be married before the year is out. The young girls sometimes rake out the ashes of the fire overnight, making a perfectly flat surface on the hearth. In the morning, the print of a foot will be found distinctly marked in the ashes. If the imprint is perfectly flat, it indicates marraige and a ong life; but if the toes are bent down into the ashes, death will inevitably follow. To the know the name of the person you are destined to marry, put a snail on a paste of flour - cover it over and leave it all night; in the morning, the initial letter of the name will be found traced on the flour by the snail. Should the snail be quite within his house when you take him up, your lover will be rich; but should the snail almost be out of his shell, then your future husband will be poor, and probably will have no house or home to take you to when you wed him. |
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