Show Peculiar Customs Mohammedans oC India are very superstitious su-perstitious No Mohammedan will take < bath on Sunday or Tuesday But I one bathes on Wednesday all misfortunes misfor-tunes and misery that are In store for him till the next Wednesday will be averted As a rule all Mohammcdana bathe on Fridays before going to perform per-form the Juinma prayers For donning new clothes Saturday Sunday and Tuesday are regarded as bad days I any one dons a new dress or puts on a new cloth or allows his tailor to cut a piece of new cloth on these days ho will live a miserable life till that dress 01 cloth gets torn or is thrown away r a shirt Is torn and if the wearer wants to stitch It It must be taken ofC for if it Is stitched while it Is on the body the person will soon die A Mohammedan will never allow n barber bar-ber to come near him on Tuesdays for Tuesdays and also Saturdays and Sundays Sun-days are bad days for shaving puif posos J absoltyeiy necessary he will get himself shaved on Saturday or Sunday but never on Tuesday as his star is supposed to fall in blood 1C ho does so 1 one receives money or some valuable thing It is taken with the right hand for If it is taken with the left the person receiving it is said to forget all about It very soon or to mislay It A devout Mohammedan will not start on a journey on Wednesday for it is believed he will never return home safely if he does so And It Is said that even a snake never ventures out of its hole on this day Chicago S News |