2758. Wednesday is a lucky day for collecting money.

2759. Wednesday is the luckiest day of the week for a wedding.

2760. Thursday is the best day for business transactions.

2761. Do not comb your hair on Thursday......................................Western Kentucky

2762. One never sees a blue jay on Friday because these birds carry sand to the Devil on that day. Another version says that every blue jay carries a piece of wood to hell on Friday, to heat the lawyers.

2763. Eggs laid on Friday never decay........Negroes

2764. On Friday, the thirteenth, wear odd shoes for good luck.......................Western Kentucky

2765. It brings good luck to begin anything on Friday.

2766. It brings bad luck to pay a debt on Friday.......................................... Mountains

2767. It is unlucky to fish on Friday.

2768. It causes bad luck to kiss your girl on Friday................................Western Kentucky

2769. Do not wash your face on Friday..........................................Western Kentucky

2770. It causes bad luck to sweep dirt out of the house on

Friday, for the house will burn later.. .Blue Grass

2771. Never carry ashes out of the house after four o'clock in the afternoon on Friday. Wait until Monday morning, or you will lose a dollar that week.

2772. It brings bad luck to move on Friday or Saturday.

2773. It brings bad luck to be born on Saturday. You will have to work hard for a living.....Mountains

2774. If you cut a garment on Saturday, you will never live to wear it out. "Quick done or never done."

2775. It causes bad luck to begin building a house on Saturday.

2776. You must not bake a cake on Saturday.

2777. The sun always shines on Saturday, if only for a few minutes.

2778. If you cut your finger nails on Saturday, you will get joy tomorrow.

2779. If you feel that it is Saturday when it is not, you will soon hear of the death of a friend of yours. ..................................Mountains

2780. What you do on the first day of the year indicates the character of your actions throughout the year,

2781. If a man enters your house before a woman on New

Year's Day, you will have a good year.

2782. If a woman enters the house before a man does on

New Year's Day, there will be bad luck.

2783. If a negro is your first visitor on New Year's Day, he brings bad luck.

2784. As the first caller on New Year's Day, a dark man brings the best luck.

2785. As the first caller on New Year's Day, a fair-haired man brings the next best luck.

2786. As the first caller on New Year's Day, a darkhaired woman brings the third best luck.

2787. As the first caller on New Year's Day, a red-haired person brings bad luck.

2788. If a woman comes on the first day of the year, some one will come every day in the year.

2789. If a woman visits you on New Year's Day, you cannot raise chickens successfully that year. Mountains

2790. To break something on the first day of the year causes bad luck for the remainder of the year.

2791. If you dip your head into the ocean on January first, you will not be ill during the year.

2792. If you wash anything on New Year's Day, you will wash a member of the family away.... Blue Grass

2793. If you eat cabbage on New Year's Day, you will have money all the year.......Western Kentucky

2794. If you cook white beans the first day of the year, you will have money all the year...........................................Western Kentucky

2795. Poultry raisers are interested in the first person who comes into their houses on New Year's Day. The sex of the caller signifies whether the house will raise pullets or roosters that year, and the size of the chickens will compare with the size of the visitors..............................Blue Grass

2796. You will have good luck if while walking up grade you hear the first turtle-dove of the new year.

2797. You will have bad luck if while walking down grade you hear the first turtle dove of the new year.

2798. The cutting of the hair in March causes a year of headache.

2799. If you cut your hair in March, you will be sick before the year is out.

2800. If you cut your hair in March, you will lose a horse.

2801. If you have your hair cut in March, you will never live to see another March.

2802. To move in March brings bad luck.....Mountains

2803. If a person lives through March, he will live the rest of the year.

2804. If it rains on Good Friday, rains will be without value all summer, that is, they will be too hard, will come at the wrong time or for some other reason will be valueless..........Southern Kentucky

2805. Rain on the Friday before Easter Sunday is a goodluck sign.

2806. An early Easter means an early Spring.................................North-eastern Kentucky

2807. Unless you wear something new on Easter Sunday, you will be unlucky throughout the year.

2808. If you have a man for a guest on the morning of

May first, all the chickens that year will be roosters ..................................Blue Grass

2809. If you have a woman for a guest on the morning of May first, all your chickens that year will be hens.

2810. "A maid who on the first of May,

Goes to the fields at break of day,

And washes in dew from the hawthorn tree,

Will ever after handsome be."

2811. If you wash your hair in the first rain of May, it will grow..........................Mountains

2812. It causes bad luck to look into a well on the first day of May, for if you see your reflection, there will be a death in your family before the next May.

2813. Do not pluck a four-leaved clover in May..............................North-eastern Kentucky