Encyclopedia of Superstitions

Sneeze on a Monday, sneeze for danger.
Sneeze on a Tuesday, kiss a stranger.
Sneeze on a Wednesday, get a letter.
Sneeze on a Thursday, something better.
Sneeze on a Friday, sneeze for sorrow.
Saturday—see your true love to-morrow.

Serpents’ Eggs and Snake Eggs

remote parts of the Highlands.

To prevent a child having the whooping-cough, hang an adder stone round its neck.

The herbs were then burned.

Easter Sunday to place herbs and simples in a wooden vessel together with the dried carcase of a snake, which every person present must have touched with his, or her, fingers.

Persons born on a Saturday can see ghosts.—Highlands.

held a festival in honour of the ghosts,

In Yorkshire it was held by old country people that the beans contained the souls of the departed, and even to-day a bean shape is associated, in some connection, with death—a relic of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Accidents are most frequent when the broad bean is in flower.—East Midlands