Current superstitions : $b collected from the oral tradition of English speaking folk
General
Current superstitions : $b collected from the oral tradition of English speaking folk
Folklore -- England; Folklore -- United States
336. Wear no black at a wedding; it foretells ill luck.
_Massachusetts._
337. To be married in a brown dress is good luck; black is bad.
_Bathurst, N.B._
338. To be married in anything but white garments indicates bad luck for
the bride, white being emblematical of innocence.
They say that white is a heavenly hue.
Another has added,
It may be so, but the sky is blue.
_Massachusetts._
339. White is emblematical of holiness and truth. Blue is emblematical of
peace and security; bright green of true learning, as being the uniform
clothing of nature.
_Maine and Massachusetts._
340. A bride must not look in the glass after her toilet is complete,
_i.e._, she must add a glove or some article after leaving the mirror.
_Maine and Massachusetts._
341. It is bad luck for a bride to keep any of the pins that she used
when she was married.
_Alabama._
342. You will be unhappy if you lose your wedding ring.
_General in the United States._
343. If the bride just before leaving the house throws her bouquet over
the banisters, the one who catches it is next to be wedded.
_Philadelphia, Pa._
344. If a drop of blood gets on a garment in making, it will be one of
your wedding garments.
LUCKY DAYS.
345. Marry in Lent,
Live to repent.
_New York._
346. The day after a wedding is called the bride's day, the next day the
groom's day; the condition of the weather on these days will indicate
whether their lives are to be happy or otherwise.
_Salem, Mass., and Queen Anne Co., Md._
347. The wedding day is the bride's day, and the weather foretells her
married life. The following is the bridegroom's, and his married life is
shown in the same manner. The third day shows how they will live together.
_New York._
348. The two days before the wedding are the bride's days. If they are
pleasant, she will have good luck, etc.
_Waltham, Mass._
349. Marriage days.
Monday--a bad day.
Tuesday--you will have a good husband and will live long.
Wednesday--a grand day; you will have a good husband, and will
live happily, but will have some trouble.
Thursday--a bad day.
Friday--a bad day.
Saturday--no luck at all.
Sunday--no luck at all.
_Baltimore, Md. (negro)._
350. Wednesday is the luckiest day on which to be married. Saturday is
the unluckiest. Friday is also unlucky.
_Bathurst, N.B._
THE MARRIAGE CEREMONY.
351. Happy is the bride that the sun shines on.
_Northern Ohio._
352. If it rains on the wedding, the bride will cry all her married life.
_Talladega, Ala._
353. To marry in a storm betokens an unhappy life.
_Peabody, Mass._
354. It is unlucky to drop the ring at the marriage ceremony.
_New York._
355. A bride must step over the church sill with her right foot.
_Orange Co., N.Y._
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