xxxi. are assigned to girls and boys
respectively according to the day of the month of the birth.
_Labrador and Brookline, Mass._

696. It brings bad luck to the bearer of a ring to have it taken from her
finger by another person.
_Massachusetts._

697. Measuring one's waist, as for a dress, will bring ill luck.

698. To turn a loaf of bread upside down is ill luck.
_Northern Ohio._

699. To find a four-leaved clover is lucky; but five-leaved, unlucky.
_General in the United States._

700. When a vessel is launched, break a bottle of wine over her for luck.
The bottle is to be broken by a lady.
_General in the United States._

701. Never carry clean wet clothes from one house to another, as it will
bring ill luck.
_Chestertown, Md._

702. Do not go into your new house by the back door; if you do you take
disaster with you.

703. Never build on a spot where a house has been burned. The second
house is likely to go in the same manner.
_Maine and Massachusetts._

704. Light coming in at the window is a bad sign.
_Peabody, Mass._

705. The opening of an umbrella in the house is a sign of bad luck.
_General in the United States._

706. If you drop your umbrella, you will have ill luck if you pick it up
yourself; but the ill luck may be averted by having some one else pick it
up.
_Prince Edward Island._

707. To carry a hoe through the house is ill luck.
_Alabama._

708. To light three lights with one match is good luck for a week.
_Peabody, Mass._

709. The falling of a chandelier foretells a disaster in the family.
_New York._

710. Breaking a looking-glass shows that you'll have seven years of ill
luck.
_General in the United States._

711. If a chair be turned about on one of its forelegs, there will be bad
luck in the house all that year.
_Talladega, Ala._

712. A mare-browed man, that is, one whose eyebrows meet, is unlucky and
can cast spells.
_Newfoundland._

713. It is unlucky, when going deer-hunting, to meet a red-haired man.
_Newfoundland._

CHAPTER X.

MONEY.

714. A group of bubbles on a cup of coffee signifies money.
_United States._

715. A mass of bubbles floating on a cup of coffee signifies that money
is coming to one. If he can take up the bubbles on his spoon, it
indicates that he wi