Eureka Reporter | 1903-07-31 | Page 7 | A Few Odd Superstitions

A FEW ODD superstitions they are of interest to mothers and pretty girls up vp in bucks county last week said a tram traveler eler an old woman re counted to me some odd superstitions these she declared she and all her friends believed in implicitly one regarded newborn new born babies when the baby is taken tor for the first time into a strange house to dine an egg and a piece of bread should be given to it by the house s owner oth berwise the child will will have bad luck tor for ten days another regarded marriageable maids when a maiden Is shelling peas she should II 11 she find a pod with nine peas in it put it over the house door then the first young man to en ter the house through the door will marry her philadelphia record