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Show Strange New Year Beliefs Still Exist Over England ra.i Scotland, In the villages of the plains and highlands, high-lands, ancient New Year supersti-1 tions still exist. It is considered unlucky to wear I old clothes on the New Year; bud 1 luck falls on a house if anyone goes ' out before someone has entered. If the first comer "first foot," the natives call it be a man, good luck will bless the house;' if a woman or a fair-haired man, the luck is evil. So widespread is this belief that in many villages the dark-haired men of the community make it a regular regu-lar business to go from house to house to "Ink th New Year in " In Herefordshire, at midnight, the girls rush to the spring. The one who gets the first drink, or the "cream of the well," is sure of a handsome husband. Unlucky, too, is the good woman who gives away a light on New Year's day. Where a brand goes out, the evil fays come in. The most tender-hearted woman will see her neighbors shiver in a fireless house rather than give away a light on the New Year. |