Iron County Record | 1905-06-30 | Page 6 | Il Luck in May Weddings

ll-L LUCK IN MAY WEDDINGS. Popular Superstition Has Descended From the Romans. May weddings nro supposed by many portions to be unlucky. It Is a hcrltago from tho ancient Romans. A May bride, says Ovid, Is short-lived, his explanation being that tho month Included tho celebration of the Lc-muria Lc-muria In honor of tho dead. Apart from any evil omen, such a tlmo of mourning would Interfero with the bathing and tollot arrangements that wore proper preliminaries to weddings. wed-dings. Plutnrch suggests that as April was the month of Venus, and Juxo that of Juno,, to select May was to slight those nuptial goddesses; or that June, as tho month of the young (Junloros), was preferable to May, tho month of tho old (majores). Ovid's "Menso malas malo nubero vulgls alt" (thero.ls a popular paying that wick ed oraqn wed In May) was Inscrlbod on tho gato of Holyrood when Mary queen of Scots married Dothwcll In May, 15G7. What followed strength oned Scottish bollef In Mary's unluck Incss.