Labrador

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• #34

  If the “cradle cap” of a baby be combed with a (fine?) tooth comb, the child will be blind.

  Labrador.
• #283

  Girls prepare basins of dirty and of clean water. If a blindfolded girl puts a stick, with which she reaches about, into the dirty water, she will marry a widower. If into clean water, she will marry a young man.

  Labrador.
• #285

  Make ready a mirror, a lamp, a basin of water, a towel and soap. Go to bed backward, not speaking afterwards, and lie awake till midnight. If your sweetheart comes and washes, combs his hair, and looks at you, you’ll be married. If you don’t see him, you’ll see your coffin. (Both sexes.)

  Labrador.
• #288

  Run molten lead into hot water; the shape of the pellets formed shows the occupation of your future sweetheart.

  Labrador.
• #325

  On Midsummer’s Day wet a new garment in running water and hang across a chair, wrong side out, to dry. At twelve noon or midnight the one who is to marry you will be seen turning the garment.

  Labrador.
• #330

  The mother-in-law’s test of the incoming daughter-in-law is to place a broom on the floor. If the daughter removes it and places it on one side, she will be a good housewife; if she steps over it, she will be a bad housewife.

  Labrador.
• #368

  If a girl wet her apron in washing, it is a sign that she will have a drunken husband.

  Labrador, Scilly Cove, N. F., and New England.
• #389

  If you can’t drink a cup of tea, you must be love-sick.

  Labrador.
• #404

  If a lock of hair over the forehead (“widow’s lock”) be cut before marriage, the girl will be a widow.

  Labrador.
• #419

  If a couple out walking together stumble, it is a sign that they will be married.

  Labrador.
• #475

  To dream of porpoises is bad luck.

  Labrador.
• #495

  Dreaming of white things is a sign of snow in summer.

  Labrador and Newfoundland.
• #498

  To dream of a dead father is lucky.

  Labrador.
• #499

  To dream of a dead mother is unlucky; it brings sorrow.

  Labrador.
• #518

  To dream of fire is a sign of anger.

  Newfoundland and Labrador.
• #527

  It is bad luck or death to dream of naked clinging (climbing?) children.

  Labrador and Newfoundland.
• #535

  To dream of a drunken husband or man is unlucky.

  Labrador.
• #579

  To dream on land of a vessel (with sails set?) is a sign of a funeral.

  Labrador and Trinity Bay, N. F.
• #580

  To dream of small beads or sewing silk is lucky.

  Labrador.
• #695

  Often verses of Proverbs xxxi. are assigned to girls and boys respectively according to the day of the month of the birth.

  Labrador and Brookline, Mass.
• #778

  If your eye quivers, a stranger is coming.

  Labrador.
• #867

  A sty in the eye is cured by rubbing a gold ring on the eye three mornings with a sign of the cross.

  Labrador.
• #961

  Women “cruising,” i. e., visiting about on “pot-days,” especially Sundays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays, when people have their best dinner (usually pork and cabbage) in the pot, is a sign of bad weather. But it is also said that it is a sign of mild weather.

  Newfoundland and Labrador.
• #989

  Stars twinkling are a sign of bad weather.

  Labrador and New Harbor, N. F.
• #1019

  Talking of horses is a sign of rain.

  Labrador.
• #1041

  Water boiling over out of a kettle is a sign of rain.

  Labrador.
• #1049

  In northerly squalls:—

  If the rain comes before the wind,
  ’T is time your topsail to take in;
  If the wind before the rain,
  You may hoist your topsail up again.

  Labrador.
• #1200

  If shot remain in the gun after firing, some one of your family will die.

  Labrador.
• #1201

  If you build on to your house, you will die within the year.

  Labrador.
• #1225

  If three drops of blood fall from your nose, one of your family is dead.

  Labrador.
• #1362

  If the palm of the hand itches, it is a good sign that you will kill something.

  Labrador.
• #1418

  A thief may be detected by a key turning in the Bible to Psalm i. 18-21, when the name of the guilty person is mentioned.

  Labrador.
• #1423

  If, of your own accord, you leave home for Sunday visiting, you will be forced to leave for two Sundays following.

  Labrador.