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in which are nine peas, hang the same over the door, and take notice of the person who comes in, (who is not of the family,) and if he be a bachelor, you will certainly be married within the year.
On any Friday throughout the year, take rosemary flowers, bay leaves, thyme, and sweet marjoram, of each a handful; dry these and make them into fine powder; then take a tea-spoonful of each sort, mix the whole together, then take twice the quantity of barley-flour, and mix the whole into a cake, with the milk of a red cow: this cake is not to be baked, but wrapped in clean writing-paper, and laid under your head any Friday night. If the person dream of music, she will shortly wed him she wishes; if she dream of fire, she will be crossed in love; if of a church, she will die single. If any thing be written, or there be the least spot, on the paper, it will not do.
Any unmarried woman fasting on Midsummer Eve, and at midnight laying a clean cloth, with bread, cheese, and ale, and sitting down as if going to eat, the street door being left open, the person whom she is afterwards to marry will come into the room, and drink to her by bowing; and after filling the glass, will leave it on the table, make another bow, and retire.
To know what fortune your future husband shall have.— Take a walnut, a hazlenut, and a nutmeg, grate them together, and mix them with butter and sugar, and make them into small pills, of which exactly nine must be taken on going to bed, and according to your dreams so will be the state of the person you will marry. If a gentleman, of riches; if a clergyman, of white linen; if a lawyer, of darkness; if a tradesman, of odd noises and tumults; if a soldier or sailor, of thunder and lightning; if a servant, of rain.
To see a future spouse in a dream, by charming the moon.— At the first appearance of the moon, immediately after New Year’s-day, go out in the evening, and standing over the spars of a gate or stile, and looking on the moon, repeat the following lines:—
All hail to thee, Moon, all hail to thee:
I pry’thee, good Moon, reveal to me
This night who my husband shall be.
IX.—By Cards.
Take a pack of cards, shuffle and cut them two or three different times, lay them on a table nine of a row; if a man,
