Tooele Transcript Bulletin | 1909-12-31 | Page 7 | Peculiar Wheel of Fortune

peculiar wheel of fortune breton peasants ascribe miraculous powers to odd contrivance in the he village church 0 of comfort near pont croix in western brittany to la a very good specimen of the now rare wheel of 0 fortune it Is made of wood with a row of bells on tta its I 1 outer rim and pivoted between a of oc rough beama prim primitive lUve workmanship liy means of a cord attached to aa crank the can be made to revolve and set all th the bells it a jangling I 1 have often heard thit the tha peasant believe that it has baa miraculous power ot of bealin when run over the head bead of 0 2 ia a sufferer who has placed a sou in the box to which the rope ropa Is padlocked I 1 received remarkable confirmation of abla belief f for or while bahng a photo photograph a seiho viell to do sailors Bai lors wife and her husband came into the church and looked round ille woman asked me it if I 1 thought there could be any truth in this belief bailer as aa her child was wa very backward in learning to talk her nurse who camo came from those parts had i advised her to bring brine the baby and ring the bells of comfort y his head when he would be ba sur surer ta talk As she was passing si p j f to see it it