Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1881 — Lucky Days. [ARTICLE]

Lucky Days.

.Loudon Saturday Review. It is curious to note that in India a rainy di*y is considered unlucky fora wedding, and that Scandinavian Thursday, the day of Thor, or thunder, was also of bad omen. St. Elroy, in a sermon, warns his flock from keeping Thursday as a holy day, and Dean Swift, in a letter to Sheridan, rhymes Thursday to “cursed day.” The Estonians consider it unlucky, and in Devonshire it has but one lucky hour. Mr. Jones, who by the way makes no mention of Thursday as the fatal day of the Tydors. does attempt to generalize these curious 'facts, which, indeed we have picked out from different parts of the book. Unlucky days in Cochin China—perhaps among the Mohammedan Malays, but we are not told—are the third day of the new moon, being that on which Adam was expelled from Paradise; the fifth, when the whale swallowed Jonah; the sixteenth, when Joseph was put into the well; the twenty-fourth, when Zachariah was murdered; and the twentyfifth, when Mohammed lost his front teeth. The ancient Egyptians were like the Chinese in their careful observance of lucky and unlucky days,and Mr. Jones may turn with profit for his next edition to Mr. Mitchell’s amusiDg calendar, in which they are detailed at length. Mr. Jones says that from ancient Egypt the evil or unlucky days have received the name of Egyptian days, given them in “a Saxon MS (Cott. MS. Vitel, c. viii, so 20).” They are the la9t Monday in April, the first in August, and the “first Monday of the going out of the month of December.” which leaves us somewhat in doubt as to all the Mondays iu that month.