Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1914 — BOTH GOOD AND BAD MEANING [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BOTH GOOD AND BAD MEANING

Innumerable Superstitions Connected From Time Immemorial With Wild Creatures. There are very many superstitions connected with wild animals. In the case of a lion, it is believed that the wearing of a claw of this animal will bring great strength. People connected with circuses and shows have a saying that when lions get restless and uneasy, either ill luck or extremely bad wegther is at hand, and that when they continually wash their faces in cat-like fashion they are likely to have fits of ill temper in the near future. Numberless are the superstitions associated with the tiger. The natives of India believe that its whiskers are a deadly poison, and that when finely chopped and secretly put into a person’s food they will assuredly cause death. What is known as the “evil eye” is greatly dreaded in India, and to avert this parents hang the claws of tigers round the necks of their children. ; To see a wolf to supposed to ho s

good sign, but if a man sees a woh before the wolf sees him, then he will become dumb for the time or loe* bis voice. For a hare to run across anyone’s path is considered a very bad sign in some parts of England, because lx olden times it was believed that witches transformed themselves into hares in order touring bad luck to their ene mies.