Ringing:
It’s an ill omen if your ears are ringing.

When you happen to get “ringing” in your ears, you have an opportunity to determine whom you will marry. Ask someone for a number when you get ringing in your ears. Count through the alphabet to the corresponding letter. Your future husband’s or wife’s name will start with this letter.

Ears and Traits:

• Small ears = mean, instinctive.
• Large ears = Generous, intellectual.
• Square-shaped = a noble heart
• Pointed = Artful, conniving.
• Flat = lack of refinement.
• Long = wise.

Hands:

• If the palm of your right hand is itchy, then it foretells that money is coming to you, but don’t scratch it as that stops the money from coming!
• If it’s your left palm that is itchy, then scratch away, as that means that you’ll soon be paying out money.
• If hands are crossed at the table while passing a dish, a wedding will follow. The top hand belongs to the person who will be married.  Pennsylvania.

Shaking hands:

• Ukrainian: It’s bad luck to shake hands over a doorway.
• If four persons cross hands in shaking hands on taking leave, one will marry before the year is out.  Prince Edward Island, Eastern Massachusetts, and New York.

• It’s bad luck to cut your beard.
• You’ll have a lucky life if your beard is bushy.
• Whistling makes your beard grow.

Right cheek, left cheek, why do you burn?
Cursed by she that doth me any harm.
If it be a maid, let her be slayed,
If it be a wife, let her lose her life,
And if it be a widow, long let her mourn;
But if it be my own tru love, burn, cheek, burn.

Cheeks and Traits:

• Rounded cheeks = Liveliness; wisdom.
• Fat cheeks = Sensuality; greed.
• Hollow cheeks = A cold personality; meanness.