To drop your stick or umbrella on your journey is unlucky.
When you have started on a journey, to turn back to the house for something you have forgotten, means bad luck.
To bring heather into the house is a sign of death: white heather, however, is considered extremely lucky.
It is unlucky to meet a white horse when on a journey, to change it into luck spit over your little finger.
If a young lady looks through a silk-handkerchief at the first new moon after New Year’s Day, she will be able to see her future husband.
It is unlucky to find a coin on the road, but if the head and not the tail happens to be up it is a lucky omen.
To carry in one’s purse a crooked sixpence, or a coin with a hole in it is lucky.
Spit on the first coin you get in the day, and you’ll have luck for 24 hours.
Never begin any new work on a Friday or Saturday.
It is considered unlucky for a servant to go to service on a Thursday or a Saturday. In Cardiganshire servants go to service either on a Monday or Wednesday, which are considered lucky days.