SUPERSTITIONS.
It is wise to set our faces against superstitions, but many in their secret hearts encourage a favourite ono. There are many people whp hate to see the new moon over the left shoulder; if they do " somehow something always goes wrong". they declare They do not believe such things, of course ;,but so it - is. Another cannot endure a atrangpr who parts him from a companion, with whom he is walking in the street; others will not raise umbrellas over their heads in the house, and there are men who turn pale if they spill salt. A merchant of great wealth •believed that his fortune would depart when |e ceased to patronize an old apple 'woman at a cerfain corner. It is said that the mother of the Rothschilds always lived in .her queer little, house, in a crooked street, "to keep her sons their luck." Every morning servants took her to her sons' splended houses in a sedan chair,' but she always slept in ttie house where they were born. ■
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2385, 28 August 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)
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173SUPERSTITIONS. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2385, 28 August 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)
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