It is proper to make a low bow whenever a single magpie is seen.
It is not considered safe to plant a bed of lilies of the valley; the person doing so will probably die in the course of the next twelve months.
Where the rainbow rests, is a crock of gold.
A cork under the pillow is a certain cure for cramp.
Seven different herbs must be used for making a herb poultice.
"The editor remembers a female relation of a former vicar of St. Erth, who, instructed by a dream, prepared decoctions of various herbs, and repairing to the Land's End, poured them into the sea, with certain incantations, with the expectation of seeing the Lionesse rise immediately out of the water having all its inhabitants alive, notwithstanding their long immersion."—Davies Gilbert's Cornwall, vol. iii. p. 310.