* On New Year's Eve, women took care to tend the fire all night long, and never let it go out.

* No one was allowed to work on St. Theodore's feast day; on this day, unwed women would put a piece of meat pie underneath their pillows so they could dream of the man they were to marry.

*Unwed girls were said to untie their garters when they saw the first moon of Easter, so that their luck could also be "untied" and they could marry soon.

* A woman who had just touched a dead person was not supposed to plant pumpkins; she could dig the hole, but someone else had to drop the seed in.

* The first girl to become engaged in a new year was supposed to untie her garter so that other girls would have similar luck during the year ahead.

* Hitting one's self in the eye was supposed to be prophetic of a letter or money on its way.

* When a cat groomed its face using its paw, villagers predicted rainy weather.

* Children wore brightly colored yarn bracelets during the early days of March; mothers placed them there so that they would not get burned during the coming summer months.

* A child's first haircut was to be given by another child whose parents were still alive.

* Hunters never weighed the rabbits they had just shot, for fear that they'd never be able to hit another one.

* Married couples who had been married less than forty days were not supposed to watch another marriage ceremony in progress. Instead, the new wife stood at the church doorway, and was one of the first to double-kiss the bride when the bride and groom moved to the outside of the church.

* During the time of month when there is a new moon, grape vines were not supposed to be trimmed, because it was believed that doing so would prevent a good crop in the next season.

* Women collected stray hairs from their combs and stuffed them into cracks in the wall, so they could grow better, thicker hair afterwards.