| Show THE WHY of SUPERSTITIONS By B H. H IRVING KING THE LOVERS LOVER'S HAIR n Is a superstition of cr very ancient nn- nn H HEitE date which still exists In some rural districts of the United States and Canada os as well ns as ill n En Ellis laid and Continental Europe When n a girl hears the first call of the robin In the spring let her take off her hel shoe find and stocking from the thc left foot fot and If upon turning the Inside In- In side out she finds n a hair in In the heel of n ft It will be of the color ns as the hair of her future husband Ili countries where the wearing of shoes shoe and stockings Is tint not so common us liS here time the investigator need merely look to see if hair is clinging to lien her left heel In one section down dowl South they sa say this experiment to III divination d should be Je tried when the call of the first turtle dove Is heard and In England Eng Eng- land It is s the thc first cuckoo In We t. t phulia phalla Germany It Is at the sight of the first wallow swallow that the peasant looks to see If there Is a hair under the thc foot Dul Bul In Its essence the so- so Is the same on hath hoUI sides of the thc Atlantic undo In all sections In It are the survival sur of se erl several l an- an cleat Ideas In the direction that lint the rIle divination be Je tried when the cute nole of the bird which Is the er of spring g Is heard we see the Idea of nn an appeal to tlc the goddess of of vegetation that vegetation the resuscitation reo re of which Is Just beginning But Dut Demeter was also the of rr find and therefore It a proper for I the he curious maiden mahlen to up up peal to In hi such matters It has been shown how I the he mown-goddess mown when n to UlOn Ilke mutters stints stint's ho the malden her future husband In II a But Demeter the prayer er of her votary l' by b show time maiden a 11 hair of her Iler fut future lIle husbands husband's head And It has already been heen how closely related d how III liSt the thc ancients conceived II a man and ht his hair hur to he be e even en n when llen the he two were severed se c d I by McClure Clure Newspaper |
