If you have seen the KIPLING PAGE
It may interest you to know that the owner of the book pictured there
discovered it purely by accident and purchased it because of a personal experience,
An experience that happened to this person long before they ever even heard of Dracula's Castle.
The book above was purchased recently. As time permits the interesting contents of this
unusual book will be entered here for your enjoyment, meanwhile CLICK HERE for a listing
of other pages dedicated to SUPERSTITIONS and Folk Lore.

To Start with Here are a few lines based on the Month of February.
Be happy if the weather is bad!

"If the Hedgehog emerges from his hole on February second
and sees his shadow, prepare for thirty days more of winter."

"If in February there be no rain,
The hay won't prosper nor the grain."

"All other months of the year curse a fine February."

"If a cat lies in the sun in February, she will
creep under the grate in March."

Now that its March perhaps a superstition or two
about wind will be of interest.

"Wind in the east is good
Neither for man or beast."

"Wind in the west
suits everybody best."
 

An old saying about March,
In like a Lion,
Out like a Lamb.

Here We present some superstitions appropriate to April.

The Druids used eggs in their religious festivals and considered them symbols of fecundity.
Every Druid wore an egg around his neck, encased in gold, as a symbol of his priestly authority.

The Jews use an egg in their Passover service as a symbol of Divine Power and help.

In Scotland an "eirack's" egg,  the first egg laid by a young, hen was gathered
as the principal ingredient of a Hallowe'en charm.
The white was carefully dripped into a glass of water and the glass turned bottom up
in the palm of the hand. The shape the albumen assumes in the hand indicates
 the profession the person will be most successful in.  A vague ship like shape
would indicate the person should be a sailor.

When flowers blossom early and are numerous,
it is believed that hens lay more than in other seasons.

Breaking egg shells over a child is supposed to keep the child safe from witchcraft.

Eggs brought into a house or barn over running water, will not hatch.
 

Here's a superstition sent in by Shannon Hanscomb
who read it in "Little House on the Prarie" when she was a kid.
Not a good omen for Goths.
"Married in black, you'll wish yourself back"
Thanks Shannon!

Here's a prize! It is also proof that I'm spending too much time on the internet!
This book you're looking at is 106 years old as of this writing.
Not only that, it has been sitting on one of my book shelves unnoticed for 13 years.
It was part of a collection of Books about Boston I bought as a lot and never really looked at.
A lot of the information in it is the same as what you have read above.
One interesting difference is that February second is referred to as Candlemas
which harks back to old time religion. (I mean REALLY old religion as in Judaism and Catholicism.
Due to the work of  Dr. Kathleen Kenyon from Britain
archaeologists  have known since the nineteen fifties that Biblical Jericho at 9,000 years of age
is the oldest city in the world.)
Notice that the ground hog is called a hedgehog above
I wonder what they called it in Jerecho?
 

Hoo Hah! The following book was printed in the last milennium
But it may still be new enough that you can find one!

Reprinted in 1987 by Chartwell books, Inc
ISBN 1-55521-109-7
The author notes that she was writing this book
during the seventh day of the seventh month
of the 77th year of the century.

A very interesting superstiton mentioned in this book
is that it is bad luck to open a show on a Friday.
It is also considered bad luck for a ship to sail on a Friday.
What is interesting about this is that the superstion that
it is bad luck to whistle in a theater
is said to hark back to Shakespeare's time when Sailors
handled the ropes used to hang and move scenery.
Supposedly these sailors communicated by whistling
as a boatswain would aboard ship.
The unlucky actor
who whistled might unwittingly cause a piece of the set
to be dropped on his head.
It was also considered bad luck to whistle on a Ship.
I wonder which superstition came first.
Did the sailors give it to the theater or get it there?