2700. Monday's child is fair of face.

Tuesday's child is full of grace.

Wednesday's child is loving and giving.

Thursday's child must work for a living.

Friday's child is full of woe.

Saturday's child has far to go.

But the child that is born on the Sabbath day,

Is blythe and bonny and good and gay.

2701. Wednesday's child is merry and glad.

Thursday's child is sour and sad.

2702. Cutting Nails.

Monday for health;

Tuesday for wealth;

Wednesday for news;

Thursday for a new pair of shoes;

Friday for sorrow;

Saturday, see your beau tomorrow.

But you had better never been born than have your nails on Sunday shorn.

2703. To cut the finger-nails on Monday means health, on Tuesday wealth, Wednesday a letter, on Thursday something better, on Friday a wife, on Saturday long life, on Sunday means evil, for all of that week you will be ruled by the Devil.

2704. To cut the nails on Monday will bring good luck.

2705. If you cut your finger nails on Monday morning before breakfast, you will receive a present before the week is over.

1 For the significance of sneezes on certain days, see Sneezes, numbers 1035-1038. For days and months of weddings, see Weddings, numbers 616-627. For the connection of days or seasons with crops, see Crops.

2706. It brings bad luck to cut the nails on Thursday.

2707. If you cut your toe nails on Friday, you will never have toothache..............Western Kentucky

2708. If you cut your nails on Sunday, you will have a plague.

2709. It brings good luck to have the nails pared on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. It brings, bad luck to have the nails pared on other days, especially Sunday.

2710. If you trim your nails on Sunday, someone will catch you with your clothes down before the end of the week.........................Mountains

2711. If you burn brush on Sunday, you will be put in the moon.

2712. If you burn brush on Sunday, when you die your body will burn all the time.

2713. It brings good luck to move on Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday.

2714. You will have good luck if you are born on Sunday.

2715. A person born on Sunday can talk to animals at midnight of old Christmas...........Mountains

2716. It brings good luck to wear a new dress on Sunday...........................Western Kentucky

2717. If it thunders on Sunday, goose eggs will not hatch..................................Mountains

2718. If you work on Sunday, you will be sick on Monday.

2719. It brings bad luck to fish on Sunday.

2720. If you turn a spinning wheel around on Sunday, you will get a whipping..............Mountains

2721. One will have to pick each stitch out with his nose that he sews on Sunday.

2722. If you sew on Sunday, on Judgment Day or in hell you will have to take the stitches out with your nose.

2723. It brings bad luck to use scissors or to sew on Sunday, unless you do not wear a thimble or unless you carry your work to a friend's house. Mountains

2724. If you sew on Sunday, you will die on Monday.

2725. It brings bad luck to iron on Sunday.

2726. It is harmful to darn on Sunday, unless you cross your feet..........................Blue Grass

2727. It brings bad luck to comb your hair on Sunday....................................Mountains

2728. Sunday is the best day to move.

2729. It causes bad luck to move on Sunday. .Mountains

2730. It brings good luck to start on a journey on Sunday.

2731. If you start on your journey on Sunday, you will be gone a long time.

2732. If you set tobacco on Sunday, the grub worms will attack it.

2733. If you turn a cow dry on Sunday, her calf will be born in the day time.

2734. It brings bad luck to count eggs on Sunday.

2735. It brings bad luck to turn a feather bed on Sunday.

2736. If you take up the hoe on Sunday, you will not be able to turn it loose.

2737. To burn paper on Sunday brings bad luck.

2738. As goes Monday, so goes the week.

2739. If you have company on Monday, you will have company every day in the week.

2740. If you go visiting on Monday, you will go every day in the week.

2741. Your whole week will be unlucky if you eat in a strange house on Monday.

2742. If you are in a bad humor on Monday, you will be in a bad humor all week.

2743. If you hurt your foot on Monday, it will not get well until Sunday...................Mountains

2744. If you take out ashes on Monday, you will have bad luck.

2745. It brings good luck to begin a job on Monday.

2746. A letter on Monday means that you will receive two more letters that week.

2747. It brings good luck to receive a nickel early Monday morning................Louisville Negroes

2748. If you keep all you take in on Monday, the amount will increase during the week.

2749. If a man comes to your house the first thing on Monday morning, there will be good luck all that week.

2750. If on Monday morning a woman comes to your house before a man, you will have bad luck all that week.

2751. If the first person that you meet Monday morning is a negro woman, you will have bad luck.

2752. Avert the bad luck that will come to you from meeting a negro woman on Monday morning by turning and going back..........Southern Kentucky

2753. Monday and Friday are unlucky days for all women who are born in April...........Mountains

2754. Monday, Friday, and the thirteenth day of the month are unlucky days for a journey.

2755. Set the first hen on Monday for good luck..........................................Blue Grass

2756. You will not have good luck that week if you start to work on Tuesday.................Mountains

2757. It is unlucky to meet a left-handed person on Tuesday ..............................Mountains