Show Superstitions About Christmas SIGNIFICANT meanings surround according to superstitions believed in various parts of the C. In Mistletoe Is not only supposed to be a cure for all green but will insure success In the chase and give strength to the C Early Norsemen believed for centuries that the Mistletoe would give protection against both bodily ailments and evil C A person who is born on Christmas will have power to see and command according to a Scottish C French peasants believe that babies born on Christmas have the gift of C. If a baby is born at sermon lime on Christmas Eve in Middle it portends that someone In the house will die within the L Daughters born in the on December 25 will be witty and C A baby born on Christmas in Silesia will become either a lawyer or a CI Girls In the ancient Duchy of seldom missed the opportunity by Christmas to look Into the future at their future On Christmas Eve they would go to the woodpile to draw If a girl pulled a thick her husband would be if a long he would be If a crooked he would be They would determine the business of their fu ture husbands by dropping melted lead into a pan of cold The molten metal would form various shapes in and thus resemble the insignia of his hammer a shoe a Every piece of lead resembled some occupation to the old C A maiden in Switzerland who accepts a bunch of Edelweiss at Christmas also accepts the man who proffers C All animals in the German Alps can speak on Christmas C It Is believed In the Netherlands that nothing sown on Christmas Eve will Even seed sown In the snow will C A Bohemian wife will die within a year If she burns a Christmas C. To insure an abundant harvest in some of the bread baked on Christmas is kept until sowing when It is mixed with the C It Is said that bread baked on Christmas in England never becomes C Ashes must not be thrown out on Christmas day in some sections of for fear they might be thrown into the Savior's C Some families in Scandinavia place all their shoes together on This will cause them to live in harmony throughout the |