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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Chapter 1 - Put salt on the doorstep of a new house and no evil can enter.
Chapter 2 - A young lady should never sing while cooking; she will marry an aged man.
Chapter 3 - The spouse who goes to sleep first on the wedding day will be the first to die.
Chapter 4 - If you can make a cracking sound with your finger or toe joints, it is a sure sign that somebody loves you.
Chapter 5 - If you dream of seeing an idiot, you will have much discouragement and sorrow with your family members.
Chapter 6 - Tea spilling from the spout of the teapot while it’s being carried indicates that a secret will be revealed.
Chapter 7 - The sound of bells frightens away demons.
Chapter 8 - It is a lucky omen to meet the same person twice when you are out on business.
Chapter 9 - To prevent an unwelcome guest from returning, sweep out the room she stayed in immediately after she leaves.
Chapter 10 - If you use the same pencil to write a test that you used to study for the test, the pencil will remember the answers.
Chapter 11 - In ancient Egypt, when a cat in a private house died a natural death, all the residents shaved their eyebrows.
Chapter 12 - If you drop a knife, you will receive a male visitor.
Chapter 13 - A uniformed person in your dream foretells that a wealthy person will come to your aid.
Chapter 14 - If you do not present a new pair of shoes to a poor person at least once during your life, you will go barefoot in the next world.
Chapter 15 - It is bad luck to point at the moon.
Chapter 16 - The palm symbolizes victory.
Chapter 17 - A spider repels plague when worn around the neck in a walnut shell.
Chapter 18 - If a strange dog begins to trail you, good luck will follow.
Chapter 19 - Never speak ill of the dead, hut utter phrases such as “poor man” or “rest her soul”—otherwise the spirit may come visiting.
Chapter 20 - To dream of cake means you will have good fortune.
Chapter 21 - She who hurries cannot walk with dignity.
Chapter 22 - If you sing before seven, you will cry before eleven.
Chapter 23 - Laugh alone and the world thinks you’re an idiot.
Chapter 24 - It is a good omen to meet an idiot when on some important task.
Chapter 25 - It is bad luck to leave a house through a different door than the one used to enter.
Chapter 26 - If you cut bread unevenly, you have been telling lies.
Chapter 27 - In Old English, the word “silly” meant “blessed.”
Chapter 28 - A light shining out of the dark in a dream shows that you will finally find the truth in a situation, or the answer you have been seeking.
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