Still later in life, another verse says: "Sunday shaven, Sunday shorn, Better hadst thou ne’er been born!" The hair should always be cut when the moon is waxing, and all clippings and combings should be burnt, or "the birds will take it for their nests." Probably the original idea, like that attached to the clippings of the nails, was that they should be destroyed, lest some enemy should use them to work an evil spell against the owner. If the hair burn brightly when thrown into the fire, it means long life to the owner; if it smoulder, it is a sign of death. If you swallow a hair, it will wrap itself round your heart and kill you. Howitt tells this seriously as having caused the death of Herbert Southey. The mother should be careful to see that no child is allowed to jump over the head of another, as in that case the overleapt infant would never grow. The Kafirs have the same idea, and some tribes will not play leap-frog for that reason. When a seventh son is born, it is still said that he ought to be a doctor. He was anciently supposed to be able to cure the "king’s evil" by touching; and the seventh son of a seventh son had still higher and more Divine attributes. If a seventh daughter appeared without any boy intervening, she was to be a witch. When the boy is old enough to put his instilled and inherited beliefs into practice, he may charm the butterfly to alight on his hand by saying (it must be said often enough!): "Le, la let, ma bonnie pet!" If he wishes for fine weather, he may sing: "Rain, rain, go to Spain! Fair weather come again!" The snail will look out from its shell if he says: "Snail, snail, come out of your hole, Or else I’ll beat you as black as a coal!" And when stung by a nettle, dock-leaves are laid on the stung place, and this rhyme chanted: "Nettle in, dock out; Dock in, nettle out; Nettle in, dock out; Dock rub nettle out!" If he puts a horse-hair into water, it will turn into an eel. Durham schoolboys used, when they saw a rainbow, to make a cross of straws or twigs upon the ground, in order to send it away, or, as they said, to "cross out the rainbow." Borrow tells of "the gipsy mystery of the trus’hul, how by making a cross of two sticks the expert in occultism could wipe the rainbow out of the heavens"; and the charm might have its roots still farther back in the cross of Thor, anciently used to dispel rain and thunderstorms. In Confirmation, those who are touched by the Bishop’s left hand will never marry. When the time for marriage comes, it is important to choose a lucky day and season. The days of the week are thus fated: "Monday for wealth, Tuesday for health, Wednesday the best day of all; Thursday for losses, Friday for crosses, And Saturday no luck at all." It is well to avoid marriage in Lent, for "If you marry in Lent, You’ll live to repent."