Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1888 — Chinese Superstitions. [ARTICLE]

Chinese Superstitions.

A girl who is partaking of the last meal she is to eat in her father’s house previous to her marriage, sits at the table with her parents and brothers; but she must eat no more than half the bowl of rice set before her. else her departure will be followed by continual scarcity in thfe she is leaving. jp A piece of bacon and a parcel of sugar are hung on the back of a bride’s sedan chair as a,* sop to the demons who might molest her while on her journey. The, “Three Baneful Ones” are fond of salt and spices, and the “White Tiger” likes sweets. A bride must not, for four months after her maniage, enter any house in which there has recently been a death or a birth, for if she does so there will surely be a quarrel between her and the groom. If a young mother goes to see a bride, the visitor is looked upon as the cause of any calamity, that may follow.— Popular Science Monthly. . j