The Magic of the Horse-shoe, with other folk-lore notesLawrence, Robert Means
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The Magic of the Horse-shoe, with other folk-lore notes
Lawrence, Robert Means
Folklore
4. Yf two men do snese bothe at one instant, yt is a good syne,
and let them go about their purpose, yf that it be either by
water or land, and they shall prosper.
5. To snese twise is a good syne, but to snese once or iij
times is an yll syne. If one come suddenly into an house and
snese one tyme, yt is a good token.
6. One snese in the night season made by any of the household
betokenyth good luck to the house, but yf he make two sneses,
yt signifieth domage.
7. Trewe yt is that he who snesith takit pte (part) of the
signification in this condition, that he pte some pte with
other.
8. Yf that any man snese twyse iij nightes together, it is a
tokyn that one of the house shall dye, or else some greatt
goodness or badness shall happon in the house.
9. Yf a man go to dwell in an house and snese one tyme, lett
him dwell there, but yf he snese twyse, lett him not tarry,
neither let him dwell therein.
10. Yf a man lye awake in his bedd and snese one tyme, it is a
syne of some great sickness or hyndraunce.
11. Yf a man sleape in his bedde and snese one tyme, it
betokenyth greatt trouble, the death of some person or extreme
hyndraunce in the loss of substaunce.
12. Yf a man lye in his bedde and make a snese one tyme, it is
a good syne both of health and lucre, but if he sleape it is
moche better.
13. Yf a man snese twyse three nights together, it is a good
syne, whatsoever he go aboutt.
14. Yf a man travell by the ways and come into an Inne and
snese twyse, let him departe out of the house and go to another
or else he shall not prosper.
15. Yf a man go forthe to seke worke and laye hands of it and
then snese one tyme, let hym departe, leaving his worke behind
hym, and seke worke elsewhere, and so shall do well; but yf he
snese twyse let hym take his worke and go no further.
16. If any man, after he haue made a bargayne with another
for any thing and then snese one tyme, it signifieth that his
bargayne will not continue.
17. Yf a man rise betymes on a Monday mornyng out of his bedd
and snese one tyme, yt is a token that he shall prosper and
gayne all that week, or haue some other joye and comoditie.
18. But yf he snese twyse, yt is cleane contrary.
19. Yf a man lose a horse or anything els, and is stopping
(_sic_) out of his dore to seke it, do snese one tyme, yt is a
token he shall haue it agayne, but yf he snese twyse he shall
never haue it agayne.
20. Yf a man ryse betyme on a Sonday and snese ii tymes, yt is
a good tokyn, but if he snese one tyme, it is an yll tokyn.
21. Yf a man at the very beginning of dinner or supper be
minded to eat, and snese twyse, yt is a good tokyn, but yf he
snese one time, yt is an yll syne.
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