Superstitions.
"In all cases of preternatural pretensions a nice question must always present itself—as to how many of the believers are fools, how many of them knaves, and how many both one and the other."
In some parts of this county the following things are considered unlucky:
To meet a squinting woman, unless you speak to her, which breaks the charm.
To go a journey on a Friday.
To be one of a party of thirteen at Christmas.
To have a cut onion lying about in the house breeds distemper.