Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1884 — Swedish Folk Lore. [ARTICLE]

Swedish Folk Lore.

On New Year’s Eve, after the light is put out in your bedroom, you must throw your slipper over your left shoulder, and then look next morning to see in what position it has fallen. If the toe points to the door you will leave that house during the year, but if the toe points inward then you will remain where you are for another year. It is customary also on the same night for the people to go out into the house where the logs of wood are kept that are used for fuel. Each one picks up the first log that comes to "hand; if it is a clean and shapely piece so will his (her) future partner be and vice versa. —Notes and Queries.