What are some superstitions from Victorian England?
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Rick Soloman
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There are so many but here are a few. In England, a country bride and her wedding party walked to church on a carpet of blossoms to assure a happy path through life. For the wealthier, a grey horse pulling the wedding carriage was considered good luck. Church bells pealed forth as the couple entered the church, not only to make the populace aware of the ceremony taking place, but also to scare away any evil forces lurking nearby. "The Victorians had a lot of superstitions associated with death. When there was a corpse in the house you had to cover all the mirrors," she said. "And if a mirror in your house was to fall and break by itself, it meant that someone in the home would die soon. When someone died in the house and there was a clock in the room, you had to stop the clock at the death hour or the family of the household would have bad luck. When the body was taken from the house, it had to be carried out feet first because if it was carried out head first, it could look back and beckon others to follow it into death. http://www.literary-liaisons.com/article004.html http://historiccamdencounty.com/ccnews43.shtml
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Another couple: Green is an unlucky color for a nursery, or for the stone on an engagement ring (i.e. no emeralds!). This superstition actually had a basis in fact; many green colors in fabrics and wallpapers used to be made with arsenical salts, and it was not unknown for people to absorb these arsenical salts through their skin and die. "Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue (and a silver sixpence in her shoe)" was the rhyme to govern weddings. "Something old" was generally a garter given to the new bride by the wife of an older, happily married couple. "Something new" could be any new item of clothing or jewelry for the bride, but symbolized the new start and looking to the future. "Something borrowed" was a token given to the bride by her family as a gesture of their good wishes, but had to be returned in order for it to be good luck. "Something blue" was because of the longstanding tradition associating the color blue with fidelity and virtue. "Silver sixpence in her shoe" was to bring wealth into the marriage. But there are an awful lot more than these.
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Some supersitions by this women are... i don't know, so tell me some, please...
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