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Scudder, Dr. John

"Dr. Scudder's Tales for Little Readers, About the Heathen."

If a marriage is celebrated in September,
the husband and wife will fight with each other.
Should a thunderbolt fall on a house, or a vulture alight on it, some
evil will befall the people living in it. If a crow should strike any
person on the head with its wings, some of his relations will die.
Should a cat or a snake cross his path, it would be an indication of
evil. In the latter case, one of his relations will die. If, when
returning home, a person should meet him bearing a light, a quarrel will
be the result.
After a person has left his house, should he meet a single Brahmin, or a
woman who has had her head shaved, or a dumb or a blind man, or a
washerman or a barber, the object for which he left would not succeed.
Or, when going out, should he hit his head against the top of the
door-frame, or should any one ask him where he was going, or should he
happen to sneeze, he would consider these things as hinderances to his
going, and reenter the house.
Should a son or a daughter be born on the new moon in April, they will
become thieves. If a person is born under the planet Saturn, he will be
slandered, his riches will be dissipated, and his wife, son, and friends
will be destroyed.


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