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Show FOREIGN BELIEFS ARE QUEER Spanish Wedding Is Ruined If One Person Appears Entirely in Black Some Other Signs. In Spain the wedding is spoiled if one of the guests appears entirely in black, or if the bride looks into a ' mirror ufter orange blossoms and veil are Tast in her headdress. V"he a person's hair ends split, it's taken by the superstitious for a sign that she is either a witch or has been f bewitched. As blond hair splits more. f readily than dark hair, all witches, f spirits and sorceresses have blond or red hair, according to popular belief. Likewise, according to the standard of art. 1 On the marriage eve there is often much good-natured rivalry between the groom and the bride in the Slav countries as to who shall blow out the candle, for the person who does will be "first to die." It is impossible to trace the origin of this superstition, yet it prevails in aristocratic society as well as in the peasant's hut, even as like this, that "to insure the life and health of the children" the woman wom-an must occupy the right side of the bed. Iu addition, she must not smoke before her forty-fifth year. There Is a superstition In this country coun-try an,d many others against burning a broom. The bud of birch broom is used ia Southern Germany as a preventive pre-ventive against erysipelas. These J buds, a piece of yellow wax and some 1 other articles are enclosed in a pink silk bag, secured with red silk and worn on the back of the neck. The ' person must change his shirt every Friday. |