Superstitions

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salt over your left shoulder. 
4) When a moth flies around the candle at night you will get a letter the next day
5) If you kill a cricket the other crickets will cut your clothes
6) If a man marries and his wife dies, and if he brings in the second wife he should not bring her in the door the corpse came out on. He should bring her through the window, and if it happens to be small he would have to take it out and pull her through.
7) On a May day the old people never threw out anything such as dust or water. They collected it all

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until the next day as they would throw out their good luck
8) On May day the women of the house would never go to sleep least the neighbours might be up first to get hte first pail of water and sometimes a number of women met together at the same time and started to fight over the water to see which of them would get away with the first pail of water. The first had an increase in her churn of milk and butter, as the first pail had the cream off the well.
9) See a pin and pick it up and all that day you have good luck.

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10) If you happen by accident to break a mirror you will have no good luck for seven years.
11) If you were going to a fair or market and meet a red haired person you will have no sale that day.
12) If you were sitting by the fire and when the fire gets into a red coal it sometimes let sparks out. Then you should spit at it very quickly and you''ll get money.
13) If you lose anything immediately tie a wisp of hay on the crook and you will get it at once.