Household Words Vol 12

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781334138096
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Household Words, Vol. 16 written by Charles Dickens and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Household Words, Vol. 16: A Weekly Journal; From July 4, 1857, to December 12, 1857 Amongst the ordinary Breton superstitions, the following may be cited - He who eats the heart of an eel, warm from the body, is supposed to be at once endowed with the gift of prophecy. (if this were known on the turf, how many an eel-pieman might win the Derby 3) A man whose hair curls naturally, is sure, they say, to be beloved by everybody (a very serviceable belief if the negroes could have the benefit of it in the United States and elsewhere). Throughout Finistere the peasants make a point of not eating cabbage on Saint Stephen's day, because the proto martyr is said to have concealed himself from his persecutors in a field of cabbages. They suppose that if butter is offered to Saint Herve (whoever he may have been), their cattle are safe from wolves, because the saint, stricken with blindness, was once led about by a wolf: they also entertain the notion that foxes will never enter a henroost that is sprinkled with the water in which pig's chitterlings have been boiled; but it is not set forth that any of the Breton saints were ever remarkably addicted to pig's chitter lings, though, without doubt, some of them were. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.