CHRISTMAS SUPERSTITIONS
Here are some of the spells and charms by which our ancestors endeavoured to woo the elusive goddess of Fortune. Draw water from a clear well on Christmas morning, and you draw good luck to all who drink of it. Scan your garments carefully to make sure that they are free from holes. Never put on anything with a hole in it on Christmas Day, otherwise your purse will leak throughout the year. When putting on your clothes remember to get into the right sleeve of all your garments first, and put on your ' right shoe before your left. When eating your first piece of Christmas cake save a crumb. If you carry it in your pocket during the next year, good fortune will attend you the whole time. As soon as you lose the crumb you may expect trouble. If you tear anything on Christmas day leave it until the next day, for if you mend on Christmas Day you will meet poverty before the year is out. AN ANCIENT CEREMONY. Holly and other green for decorations should not be carried into the house until Christmas Eve, and all should bo removed before the feast of Epiphany. Then in older times there was the great ceremony of burning the Yule log. On Christmas Eve the log was lighted with a charred piece of last year’s log, carefully saved for that purpose since the previous Christmas, to bring two years’ prosperity to the family. No barefooted person and no one with a squint was allowed to enter the room while it was burning, for that would bring poverty and poor sight to the household, and no one wns allowed to stir tho fire for fear of poking away all the Yule log fortune. c
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 14, 14 December 1932, Page 14
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296CHRISTMAS SUPERSTITIONS Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 14, 14 December 1932, Page 14
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