Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1918 — IN MONTENEGRO. [ARTICLE]

IN MONTENEGRO.

There’s a peculiar superstition in Montenegro where the peasants believe that the iron kettle chain over the hot fireplace will not heat at gll on Christmas night, as at other times, but remains cool to the touch. To explain this they claim that a similar chain hung over the fire built on the floor of the stable at Bethlehem, and that at the birth of Christ, the virgin mother grasped 11 forsupport.it became cool ather touch lest It burn the saintly hand.