Nova Scotia

Entries

• #509

  To dream of seeing the ground unseasonably ploughed means death.

  Nova Scotia.
• #549

  To dream of losing a tooth means a death.

  Nova Scotia and Cape Breton.
• #879

  To touch the jelly-fish will cause warts.

  Halifax, N. S., and parts of Eastern New England.
• #913

  To cure warts, wash the hands in warm pig’s blood.

  Nova Scotia.
• #947

  The first seven days of January indicate the first seven months of the year. Mild days, mild months, etc.

  Nova Scotia.
• #992

  The Indians told the first settlers that if the moon lay well on her back, so that a powder-horn could be hung on the end, the weather during that moon will be dry.

  Nova Scotia.
• #1124

  The full moon is the time to cut alders, spruce, or other undergrowth, because the roots then die quickly without sprouting.

  Nova Scotia.
• #1131

  To make hair grow, cut it in the new of the moon.

  N. F., N. B., N. S., Me., Mass., and Talladega, Ala.