Good Luck
The appearance of a load of hay in front of you means that good luck will attend you.
If you draw water from springs on Easter morning in jugs, and then throw it on the surrounding plants and shrubs, you will have good luck during the year.
To see several foxes together is unlucky, but to see a lone one means that good luck will attend you.
A greyhound with a white spot on it s forehead will bring luck to the people of Gower.
If you make a cup of hazel leaves and twigs, and wear it , it is possible to obtain any wish.
Heave a penny over the ship's bow when going out of the dock if you would have a successful voyage.
If anything from one ship is lent to another, luck goes with it, unless some portion of the article is first deliberately though slightly damaged.
Wealth and Treasure
If you find the first daffodil, you will have more gold than silver that year.
If mistletoe is found growing on an ash tree or hazel, treasure will be found growing underneath the tree's roots.
Black goats on a lonely bridle path mean that treasure is hidden.
If a christening follows a wedding, the child will become rich and happy.
A roof covered with house leeks insures prosperity and protects the household from disease.
If you change from one home to another at the time of the new moon, you will have plenty of bread to spare.
If, without neglect on your part, articles made of iron and steel, such as keys, knives, etc., continually become rusty, somebody is laying up money for you.
Protection Against Witches
Water that takes a long time to boil is bewitched; to make it boil, use three different kinds of wood on the fire underneath it.
Water drawn from downstream before sunrise, and in silence, on any Sunday morning, in one jug from three separate flowing springs, is magical in its use and influence.
If a woman pulls a garment out of the dolly-tub upside down after washing it, the wearer can never be bewitched. (It must be done accidentally, however!)
A cross of whitethorn on a broach, placed above the house-door, will keep off witches and their spells.
May-tree or twigs in each seed bed will make null and void the witches' spells on crops.
A bunch of seaweed hanging in the back kitchen will keep away evil spirits.
A garter made from the green bark of the mountain ash is a charm against witches and the devil.
Gift of Prophecy
A sprig of ash (with the triple leaves;, worn on the breast, will give you prophetic dreams.
A sprig of mistletoe gathered ou Midsummer Eve and placed under the pillow will give prophetic dreams.
If a man wraps himself in the skin of an. animal just killed and lies close beside a waterfall, the future will be revealed to him by the sound of the waters.
If a girl, walking backwards, places a knife among the leeks on Hallowe'en, she will see her future husband come pick up the knife and throw it into the middle of the garden.
If you go to a crossroads at Hallowe'en and listen to the wind, you will leam all the most important things that will befall you during the next twelve months.
Good Health
If a leaf of the sow-thistle is carried by anyone, he will be able to run and never grow tired.
A man with leek or garlic on him will be victorious in any fight and will suffer no wound, (The leek is the national emblem of Wales.)
If a frying pan is left on the fire with nothing in it, the wife of the house will have puckers in her face. May flowers (a shrub), gathered before sunrise, keep freckles away.
If you endure thirst on Good Friday, whatever you drink during the rest of the year will not hurt you.
If you begin in childhood by taking a dose of sea water immediately on getting out of bed in the morning, you will live to a ripe old age.
Weather
If the leaves of an oak curl, heat will follow.
Church bells, if rung, will keep thunder and lightning away.
Friendship, Love and Marriage
If you part from a friend beside a bridge, you part forever.
If a maiden wears valerian in her girdle or her corsets, she will attract the opposite sex.
When an owl hoots among houses, a maiden will lose her chastity.
A silver sixpence in the bride's shoe will ensure a happy and prosperous life.
If the bride eats a small piece of bread and butter, cut by the best man, before the wedding cake is cut, her children will have pretty and small mouths.
If a bridegroom rides to the church on a mare, he will have daughters, but no sons.
To avoid an unlucky marriage, the bride should take a pin from her wedding dress and throw it over her left shoulder or into a fire.
If a bride loses her wedding ring, or breaks it, or has it fall from her finger, she will be unlucky in her married life.
People born at sunrise will be clever, those born in the afternoon or at sunset will be lazy.
A child weaned at the time that birds migrate to or from the country will be restless and changeable in after life.
If a babe, after being weaned, is suckled again, it will become a profane swearer when it grows up.
Babies washed in rain water talk earlier than they would otherwise,
If the water in which a babe is washed for the first three months is not thrown under a green tree, the babe will not thrive.
If you wave a sprig of golden broom over a sleeping person, he will at once sleep peacefully.
A woman who wets her apron overmuch in washing will be cursed with a drunken husband.
To take holly into a house before Christmas Eve will lead to family discord.
Household, Child Care
Stonecrop placed on the roof of a cottage will protect it from lightning and witches.
Food picked up in spoons made of rosemary will be especially nutritious.
Spring water drawn between eleven o'clock and midnight on Christmas and Easter nights turns into wine.
For a comfortable feather bed, fill the bed sack with the feathers after the moon has passed the full; otherwise the bed will be lumpy.
Wood cut at the new moon is hard to split; at the full moon it is easily cut.
If a new garment is washed for the first time while the moon is new, it will not wear well.
To ride a house of rats, write on a piece of paper
"r a t s
a r s t
t s r a
s t a r"
and put it in the mouth of the king rat.
If ivy which has grown on an old house falls away, the owner of the house will have personal misfortune and the house will pass into other hands.
Bad Luck
No mistletoe, no luck.
It will bring bad luck to hang up mistletoe in the house before Christmas Eve.
If you wear a fern, you will lose your way and adders will follow you.
If flowers that bloom in the summer flower in the house in winter, the house will be unlucky.
If you uproot a plant of periwinkle from a grave, the dead person will appear to you, and you will have terrible dreams for twelve months,
A worm in an oak apple means poverty for the finder; a spider in the oak apple means illness.
It is unlucky to hear the cuckoos before the 6th of April, but you will have prosperity for the whole year if you hear them after April 28th,
To kill a raven is to bring bad luck.
If a goose lays two eggs in one day, misfortune will overtake the farm.
A robin singing, close to a window means sorrow.
If you rob an eagle's nest of its eggs, repose will never again come to you.
To spill water while carrying it from the spring or brook is an omen of sorrow.
It will bring bad luck to stitch or mend sails on the quarterdeck.
If work is continued on Ascension Day, an accident will happen. You must express a wish when a star shoots over you, or you will be unlucky all the year.
To talk when passing under a railway bridge brings bad luck. If you spurt or scatter water from your hands first thing in the morning, you scatter good luck for the day.
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