My common-place books contain a goodly number of superstitious sayings, noted down as heard at different times and in various places, chiefly during the last ten or twelve years. I have made a selection from them, the greater portion of which will probably come under the printer's eye for the first time, should they be considered a fitting addition to the interesting records of Folk Lore in the pages of "N. & Q." I reserve my comment or attempted illustration for future opportunities. _First Score._ 1. _Adder._ "Look under the deaf adder's belly, and you'll find marked, in mottled colours, these words: 'If I could hear as well as see, No man of life [sic] should master me!'" (This saying was related to me by a friend, a native of Lewes, Sussex, where it is common.) 2. _Adder-skin._ "It'll bring you good luck to hang an ether-skin o'er the chimbly [chimney-piece]." (Heard in Leicestershire.) 3. _Beanfield._ "Sleep in a beanfield all night if you want to have awful dreams, or go crazy." (In Leicestershire.) 4. _Chime-hours._ "A child born in chime-hours will have the power to see spirits." (A Somerset friend.) 5. _Egg-shells._ "Always poke a hole through your eggshell before you throw it away."--Why? "If you don't, the fairies will put to sea to wreck the ships." (Somerset. Query, For fairies, read witches?) 6. _Eyebrows._ "It's a good thing to have meeting eyebrows. You'll never know trouble." (Various places.) 7. _Fern-root._ "Cut a fern-root slantwise, and you'll see a picture of an oak-tree: the more perfect, the luckier chance for you." (Croydon and elsewhere.) 8. _Flowering Myrtle._ "That's the luckiest plant to have in your window. Water it every morning, and be proud of it." (Somerset.) 9. _Harvest Spider._ "The _harvest-man_ has got four things on its back,--the scythe, the rake, the sickle, and [Query the fourth?] It's most unlucky for the reaper to kill it on purpose." (From an Essex man.) 10. _Holly, Ivy, &c._ "All your _Christmas_ should be burnt on Twelfth-day morning." (London, &c.) 11. _Lettuce._ "O'er-much lettuce in the garden will stop a young wife's bearing." (Richmond, Surrey.) 12. _May-baby._ "A May-baby's always sickly. You may try, but you'll never rear it." (Various.) 13. _May-kitten._ "You should drown a May-kitten. It's unlucky to keep it." (Somerset.) {153} 14. _New Moon._ "You may see as many new moons at once through a silk handkerchief, as there are years before you will marry." (Leicestershire.) 15. _Onions._ "In buying onions always go in by one door of the shop, and come out by another. Select a shop with two doorways. These onions, placed under your pillow on St. Thomas's Eve, are sure to bring visions of your true-love, your future husband." (London, &c.) 16. _Parsley._ "Where parsley's grown in the garden, there'll be a death before the year's out. (London and Surrey.)