Winter/Wardrobe Superstitions
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One should not give their hand to another with a mitten on, otherwise they will give away their luck.
- The Renaissance of Latvia’s ethnographic mittens
quoting A. Tidriķe, Pabažu jūrmala
To see a scarf in your dream symbolizes self restrictions. You may be too controlling of your emotions instead of expressing them. Or you may feel that your voice is muffled.
- Book of Dreams & Dream Interpretations
by Douglas Hensley
Never accept a gift of old boots, or you will walk in the former owner’s troubles.
In Nova Scotia … mittens with any colour were thought to bring bad luck. There is a story told of one captain of a fishing schooner who, after discovering that a member of the crew had brought grey mittens with him, turned the schooner around and returned to port. The offending mittens were removed from the vessel. There are many other stories where coloured mittens were thrown overboard.
Why was the colour of mittens important? Undertakers often wore gloves that were grey. A connection was made between coloured gloves and mittens; they were thought to be harbingers of death.
- Looking Back
by Heather Getson
I never leave a project, even for a moment, on the reverse side but have no reasonable explaination, no Irish wive’s tale, to haunt me. Maybe I’m thinking, in some deep part of my brain that rarely sees the light of reason, that leaving a project anywhere but at the start of a new, right-side, row may damn the knitting to wrongness?
Or, maybe I’m just nuts.
- Knitting Superstitions/Old Wive’s Tales
Knitter’s Review member Tangled Jane
2009-12-13
