“The other day in going through Mid-Cardiganshire on election business, I observed one row of turnips growing in the middle of a field of potatoes on a farm occupied by a Nonconformist minister. When asked how it happened that that solitary row of turnips came to be there, the minister explained that by accident the planters missed putting down potatoes, and the idea prevailed in the district if the vacant row was not filled in by sowing something in it, some one would die in consequence in the neighbourhood.”
This superstition is also found in Carmarthenshire as well as in Cardiganshire.
I have met with many ministers of the Gospel, Professors of Universities, and other enlightened and educated men who are convinced that there are death portents.
CHAPTER VIII.
MISCELLANEOUS BELIEFS, WEATHER SIGNS, BIRDS, LORE, Etc.
To find a horse shoe on the road or in a field is considered extremely lucky.
To see a lamb for the first time during the season with its head facing you is also lucky.
When you see a newly-wedded couple throw an old pair of shoes at them, for it means “good luck to them.”
This was done now at Llanilar, October, 1910, at the wedding of Miss Jones, Bryntirion, by Mrs. Richards, Derwen-Deg.