Show many queer customs and aro prevalent among cossacks of tho don no man changes hie clothing on a monday it ho did it ls believed that he would suffer from a severe skin disease on thursday no tat or flesh must bo pickled or corned it any one neglected this tho meat would be full of worms in a fortnight wool Is not spun on a holiday else the cattle will sicken and die A hen Is always given an uneven number of eggs to batch never an even number bones left from a dinner at a funeral aro thrown into tho river else the dead will appear to the living in fearful shape and at the same meal no one dare cut bread it must always be broken |