Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1892 — Singuiar Superstitious. [ARTICLE]

Singuiar Superstitious.

The Chinese have a tradition that stary dogs bring luck. London has over ono thousand houses which are thought to be haunt* ed. Most of them are tenantless. The queen of Spain is superstitions. She believes that articles manufactured by blind people bring luck to those wha use or wear them. □ Cross-eyed men and women are the special uversion of gamblers. Negro touts at ruco tracks always spit in their hats when they see ~ a man whose eves squint. They say it kills the hoodoo. In many parts of England, in Germany, and m the north of Europe there are numerous superstitions oj the ouckoo, all of which, however, unite in ascribing to it oracular powers. In the maritime Highlands and Hebrides, if the cuckoo is first heard by one who has not broken his fast some misfortune, it is believed, may be expected.