Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1904 — Automobile Superstition. [ARTICLE]

Automobile Superstition.

The automobile Is such a modern institution that it 1b hardly possible to Imagine superstition being already connected with it Among modern car drivers in England, however, there Is a curious survival of an old bit of folklore. In many cars Is suspended a perforated stone, usually a sea rolled flint with a natural bore. This stone is supposed to act as a protective amulet. To be efficacious in warding off evil the hole must be naturally or, as some people maintain, supernaturally forced, not artificially bored. Belief in this stone’s power is widespread. It is supposed to confer safety on the fastest traveling motor car, and there is many a speedy driver who In his heart ascribes his Immunity from accident to the strange power of the perforated pebble.