319. On Halloween, girls place three saucers beside each other, two filled with earth and water, in the other a ring. They are respectively death, cloister or unmarried life, and marriage. Convent School, Manchester, N.H.
320. On Easter Monday, put on one black garter and one yellow one, and wear them constantly, and you'll have a proposal before the year is out. Chestertown, Md.
321. Knit a garter and color it yellow. Don it on Easter Day. Wear it for a year. The wearer will be engaged before the year is out. Salem, Mass.
322. On May first look in an unused well, and you'll see the face of your future husband or wife. New Hampshire.
323. If you look into a well at exactly twelve o'clock, on the first day of May, through a smoked glass, you will see your future husband. Alabama.
324. Hold a mirror over a well on May first, and you will see the image of your future husband or wife. Talladega, Ala.
325. On Midsummer's Day wet a new garment in running water and hang across a chair, wrong side out, to dry. At twelve noon or midnight the one who is to marry you will be seen turning the garment. Labrador.
326. Place an egg in a tumbler on St. John's Day. The tumbler being half filled with water, an egg is broken into it at early dawn, and it is placed in the window, where it remains untouched till sundown. At that time the broken egg is supposed to have assumed a special shape, in which the ingenious maiden sees dimly outlined the form of her future lord, or some emblem of his calling. Newfoundland.
LOVE AND MARRIAGE.
ENGAGEMENT.
327. If you are a bridesmaid three times you will never stand in the middle. Baldwinsville, N.Y.
328. Three times a bridesmaid, never a bride. New England.
329. Don't let another person put on your engagement ring, taken from your finger, or the engagement will be broken. Bathurst, N.B.
330. The mother-in-law's test of the incoming daughter-in-law is to place a broom on the floor. If the daughter removes it and places it on one side, she will be a good housewife; if she steps over it, she will be a bad housewife. Labrador.
331. A girl will have as many children after marriage as she has "holders" given her before marriage. Eastern Massachusetts.
ATTIRE OF THE BRIDE.
332. If you try on your wedding dress before the ceremony, you will not be happy. Cambridge, Mass.
333. The bride should wear a borrowed garter, and also a yellow garter. Boston, Mass.
334. If a bride wear a yellow garter tied on by a girl friend, the latter will be married inside the year. Eastern Massachusetts.
335. The bride should wear
Something old, Something new, Something borrowed, And something blue. Very common.
336. Wear no black at a wedding; it foretells ill luck. Massachusetts.
337. To be married in a brown dress is good luck; black is bad. Bathurst, N.B.
338. To be married in anything but white garments indicates bad luck for the bride, white being emblematical of innocence.
They say that white is a heavenly hue.
Another has added,
It may be so, but the sky is blue. Massachusetts.
339. White is emblematical of holiness and truth. Blue is emblematical of peace and security; bright green of true learning, as being the uniform clothing of nature. Maine and Massachusetts.
340. A bride must not look in the glass after her toilet is complete, i.e., she must add a glove or some article after leaving the mirror. Maine and Massachusetts.
341. It is bad luck for a bride to keep any of the pins that she used when she was married. Alabama.
