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A BRIDAL SUPERSTITION.
In some of the Dutch villages the
bride, on returning home from the
church after the wedding ceremony,
enters her new home bv a door which
is never again opened until she is
carried through it to her grave. Where
families remain generation after gen-
eration in the same house, tnere is a
chance to indulge in such a silly no
tion as this. The spell would be
speedily broken in this country. Our
houses are not constructed with the
view to blocking up one of the doors
until the death of the mistress of
the house.
In connection with this we are re
minded of a very old custom in cer
tain parts of England, oi making a.
hole in tho wall of a house, through
which the body of a deceased inmate
was carried to the grave. The reas
on for this apparently unnecessary
trouble and expense was, that it was
supposed to be unlucky to leave _ a.
house by the door through which
a corpse had passed. There is a
somewhat similar custom on the Con
tinent at the present day.
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