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ing a pin in your sleeve, and you will dream of him you will marry.
A slice of the bride cake thrice drawn through the wedding-ring, and laid under the head of an unmarried woman, will make her dream of her future husband. The same is practised in the north with a piece of the groaning cheese.
Another way to see a future spouse in a dream; the party inquiring must lie in a different county from that to which she commonly resides, and on going to bed, must knit the left garter about the right-legged stocking, letting the other garter and stocking alone; and as you rehearse the following verse, at every comma knit a knot:-
This knot I knit, to know the thing I know not yet,
That I may see the man that shall my husband be,
How he does, and what he wears,
And what he does all days and years.
Accordingly, in a dream he will appear, with the insignia of his trade or profession.
Another performed by charming the moon, thus:—at the first sppearance of the new moon immediately after the new year’s day, go out in the evening, and stand over the spears of the gate or stile, and, looking on the moon, repeat the following lines:—
All hail to thee moon ! all hail to thee !
I pr'ythee, good moon, reveal to me,
This night, who my husband must be !
The party will then dream of her future husband.
