If the light is let go out on Christmas Eve, some one in the house will die.
When lights are brought in on Christmas Eve, if any one's shadow has no head, he will die within a year; if half a head, in the second half-year.
If a hoop comes off a cask on Christmas Eve, some one in the house will die that year.
If on Christmas Eve you make a little heap of salt on the table, and it melts over night, you will die the next year; if, in the morning, it remain undiminished, you will live.
If you wear something sewed with thread spun on Christmas Eve, no vermin will stick to you.
If a shirt be spun, woven, and sewed by a pure, chaste maiden on
Christmas Day, it will be proof against lead or steel.
If you are born at sermon-time on Christmas morning, you can see spirits.
If you burn elder on Christmas Eve, you will have revealed to you all the witches and sorcerers of the neighbourhood (448. 319).
If you steal hay the night before Christmas, and give the cattle some, they thrive, and you are not caught in any future thefts.
If you steal anything at Christmas without being caught, you can steal safely for a year.