New Jersey children believe that if you wear your pajamas to bed inside out and backwards it’s sure to snow during the night.

Day of the Wedding and During the Ceremony:

The pair to be married should stand in line with the cracks in the floor, and not at right angles to them.
When a couple are married and are driving off, if old shoes are thrown after them for good luck, and one of the shoes lodges on the coach or carriage, it is a sign that one of the party will die before the year is out.
After the marriage ceremony is performed, the one that walks first from the altar is the one who will die first, either bride or groom.
If the younger sister is married before the elder, the latter will have to dance in a pig’s trough.

Wedding Timing and Weather:

• Marry in Lent, Live to repent.
• The day after a wedding is called the bride’s day, the next day the groom’s day; the condition of the weather on these days will indicate whether their lives are to be happy or otherwise.
• The wedding day is the bride’s day, and the weather foretells her married life. The following is the bridegroom’s, and his married life is shown in the same manner. The third day shows how they will live together.
• The two days before the wedding are the bride’s days. If they are pleasant, she will have good luck, etc.

Choosing the Wedding Date

But whatever day is chosen, it is generally considered unlucky for the couple to wed after dark. This would foretell a troubled marriage, children dying prematurely, and the couple facing an early death. After the date of the wedding is set it shouldn’t be changed as this would be bad luck.

You’ll Be What You Wear

In choosing a month to get married there is always superstitions to guide you.

Age Matters:
In Korea, when you choose your spouse, you have to be careful. If you marry someone five years difference in age, “won jin sal” will bother you. You’ll fight with yur spouse every day, but you won’t get divorced. And, if you marry someone six years older or younger than you are, “sang chun sal” will make you strange. You and your spouse will live happily, but you will always be beggars. As a result, many Koreans consider four years difference or seven years difference in age between the bride and the bridegroom is the best age.

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In the home:

• Scattering ashes over the roof of a house protects it against thunder and lightning.
• Sweeping out ashes on Christmas is bad luck.
• Sweeping out ashes on a Friday is bad luck.
• Sweeping out ashes after four in the afternoon is bad luck.

Crops:

• Spreading ashes on crops at Midsummer brings a good harvest.
• Scattering human ashes to the wind helps crops.

Livestock:

• Mixing ashes into the food of livestock makes animals strong and healthy.

Divination

Smooth out the ashes of the hearth on New Year’s Eve and in the morning look for shapes found there.

• Image: Footprints leading toward the door = death in the family
• Image: Footprints leading away from the door = a birth
• Image: A ring = a wedding
• Image: A coffin = a death

• Working on Ascension Day is bad luck and brings about accidents.

Weather Omens:

Eggs:

• Eggs laid on Ascension Day will never go bad.
• Eggs laid on Ascension Day and placed on the roof will bring good luck for the whole year.

Gifts:

• If you make a gift to the blind or poor you will be blessed with great wealth during the year.

Cures:

• Biting into the bark of a peach tree at midnight on Ascension Day cures goiter.
• Rain collected on Ascension Day cures eye problems.

Cures:

• Put a live frog in the patient’s mouth to cure thrush with the frog’s breath.
• Wear the body of a dried frog or powered frog livers around your neck in a silk bag to avoid epilepsy.
• Swallow live young frogs to cure weakness, consumption and cancer.
• Rub a live frog on warts and impale the frog on a tree to die to make warts go away.
• To cure whooping cough, eat frog soup.
• To treat eye problems a volunteer must lick a frog’s eyes and then the eyes of a patient.

Frogs as weather omens:

• A frog with shiny skin means fine weather is coming.
• Frog spawn being laid at the edge of ponds means a storm is brewing.
• A frog with dull skin is an omen of rain.
• Frogs croaking during the day means rain is coming.

Cures:

• It’s bad luck to meet a barking dog early in the morning.
• It’s good luck to meet a Dalmation or a Greyhound with a white spot.
• Black poodles appear on the graves of clergymen who have broken their vows.
• It’s good luck for a strange dog to follow you home.
• When a strange dog enters your house it’s a symbol of a new friendship.
• In baseball, It’s bad luck for the batting team if a dog walks across the playing field.

Running:

• A dog running between a dating couple means they will fight and not marry.
• A dog running between a woman’s legs means her father or husband will punish her for something.

Colored dogs:

• It’s good luck for a black dog to follow you home.
• If you dream of a black dog, or to see an image of a black dog in a fire, means a friend is near.
• It’s bad luck if a black dog crosses in front of you.
• It’s good luck to see a white dog before noon.
• It’s good luck to see three white dogs together.
• Regarding business, if a black and white dog crosses your path while you are on your way to a meeting, you’ll have good luck in your dealings.

Weather omens:

• If a dog retreats under a table or into a corner, bad weather is coming.
• Dogs eat grass and scratch for long periods of time when rain is coming.

Cures:

• Melted dog fat alleviates rheumatism.
• Wearing a dried dog’s tongue aroudn the neck cures scrofula
• A dog’s lick can cure sores on skin.

Death Omens:

• A dog howling at an open door for no reason.
• A dog howling outside at night.
• A dog howling once and then falling silent.
• A dog howling three times and then falling silent.
• A dog howling persistently in front of a house where someone lies ill.
• A dog digging a hole in your garden.
• A dog sleeping with it’s paws curled up and tail outstretched.

Church Bells:

• Ringing church bells during a storm will end bad weather.
• Grease from church bells can be used to cure ringworm.
• Ringing church bells drives evil spirits away.
• Death is coming if church bells ring heavily.
• Ringing church bells during harvest time ensures a good crop.
• Ringing bells during a plague will help to end the illness.

• Scattering primroses on the ground and hanging a piece of mountain ash or rowan to the door protects cattle from witches.
• Tarring cows behind the ears and at the root of the tail prevents witches from stealing their milk.
• You’ll have bad luck in your dealings if you see a woman before a man while driving cattle to market.
• It’s bad luck to strike cattle with your hand instead of a stick.
• It’s bad luck to make an offer for an animal that isn’t for sale.
• On Christmas Eve cattle acquire human speech.
• You should tell cattle about deaths in your family.
• If a cow breaks into the garden there will be a death in your family.
• Giving a piece of mistletoe tot he first cow who gives birth after New Year brings good luck to the whole herd.
• Cows to be sold should be pushed backward out of the barn or they may prove sterile.
• White cows are bad luck if you own one and if you see one, spit 3 times to protect yourself.
• A cow giving birth to twin calves is bad luck, especially if either has a white streak on it’s back.
• Carrying the tip of a calf’s tongue (the Lucky Tip or Lucky Bit) in your pocket will protect against danger and ensure you are never short of money.
• Stepping over a calf that is lying on the ground is bad luck for you and the calf.

Cattle as weather omens:

• Cattle or cows seen feeding close together or lying down near each other are omens of rain.
• Cattle or cows resting on high ground are omens of fine weather.
• Expect fine weather if you hear a cow hitting their tail against a fence.

Cows (milking):

• Singing in the milkshed prevents milk from flowing.
• A new person in the milk shed deters cows from giving milk.
• Failing to wash your hands after milking means you’ll get no milk next time.
• It’s bad luck to milk a cow that is to be sent to market.

Cows (lowing):

• If you hear a cow lowing after midnight, death is coming.
• It’s a death omen if a cow lows at a person 3 times.

Cow cures:

• A cow’s breath can cure consumption.
• Burning a calf alive protects the rest of the herd from witchcraft and disease.
• Hanging the diseased leg of a deceased calf near the chimney protects from witchcraft and disease. (ewww)