The Seaforth News, 1958-12-04, Page 7Superstitions
Stili Persist
The slim, auburn -haired; Irish
girl spending a late holiday in
London suddenly began to feel
lonely as she sauntered towards
the hotel ballroom where a com-
petent dance band was playing
the latest sentimental waltz
tune.
She was a good dancer, but
ss she entered the room it was
clear that male partners were
scarce. Most of the young men
had obviously brought their own
companions.
For ten minutes N[aureon
watched the dancing. She was
about to return disappointedly
to her apartment when she
glanced through a window and
noticed for the first time a new
moon iii the sky. Almost in-
stinctively, she opened her bag
and turned over a ew coins,
superstitiously hoping that the
old custom would bring her
Iuck.
It did—at once. A tall, clack-
haired youth rose from a seat
some ten yards from her, said
something to a girl he was with
and headed straight for Maureen
es the band struck up a foxtrot.
He asked for the dance and
she was just thinking what an
expert dancer he was when
he said; "You're Irish, I see. I'm
a Scot and not a bit super-
stitious, but I was intrigued to
see you dive into your handbag
anti turn your money over after
you'd glanced up at the moon.
I wonder whether you really
believe that coin business will
bring you luck. Do you?"
"Yes," she said boldly, "1 feel
that it has done so already."
The implied compliment pleas-
ed him. After the dance he in-
troduced her to his sister and
her fiance. For Maureen the
rest of the evening passed swift-
ly and happily,
Sandy, too, felt curiously did -
ed and as they parted at mid-
night he knew — just as she
did — that theirs was a case of
love at first sight. And he
couldn't help wondering whether
the new moon had influenced
both of them,
Sandy today is as superstitious
as Maureen. She told him also
of the old belief that if couples
are photographed together the
engagement will be broken off,
so they agreed to dodge all their
friends' cameras until their wed-
ding day next year.
Like countless other young
men Sandy had never realized
the extent to which love and
courtship — not to mention the
wedding ceremony itself -- are
hedged about with quaint super-
stitious beliefs, even in these
sophisticated times.
An attractive Yorkshire lass
says that it's "terribly unlucky"
on one's wedding day to enter
the church by one door — and
leave by another. Another York-
shire wedding custom was for
R plate of fruitcake to be thrown
from an upper window of the
bride's parents' house as she re-
turned to it from the service.
Should the plate not break,
then the marriage would be dis-
astrous, it was believed. The
more fragments of broken plate,
the happier the marriage.
There's many a pretty country
girl who firmly believes that if
she fails to look at the moon
when she leaves her home before
breakfast, she will never be
wooed and wed.
There are West Country girls
who say that to give or even
merely to hand your sweetheart
a knife indoors means that you
want to break the engagement,
Because you feel you are not
"cut out" for each other?
Lovers M many lands declare
that if a couple pluck a twig
from a laurel tree, break it in
two and each preserve a piece,
they will always remain lovers.
Scandinavian brides - to - be
would not dream of embroider-
ing their lingerie or household
linen with the initials of their
future name before their wed-
ding. •
Marriage in May is avoided
by girls in practically every part
of the British Isles, A register
office official told me he al-
ways takes a May holiday for
this reason.
Friday, he added, is almost
always a slack day for hien be-
cause, Friday weddings are .sup-
posed to herald misfortune. On
the Continent many girls are
against Tuesday weddings.
Nonsensical? Perhaps, but once
a love superstition is started no
common-sense arguments can in-
fluence those who believe in it
Lived In A Tomb
•
The pit was wide and deep.
In the bottom was a coffin of
wooden 'planks, studded with
5,000 sharply pointed nails. Here,
Swami Paramayogeshvar Bab
ashri Ginhpri, a 50 -year-old man
with blazing eyes and a scraggly
beard, was to prove that India's
"sadhus" or holy men were those
truly gifted with vast and mystic
powers by Divine Will..
There was a rustle through the
crowd, a rattle of fenders, and a
grinding of worn-out gears as a
taxi pulled up. Out came the
sadhu, weakened from fasting
but elbowed along by two dis-
ciples, They remvoed his saffron
robe and •rubbed Off the ver-
milion and sandalwood caste
marks on his forehead, In his
droopy underwear, he walked
around the pit three times. Then
he climbed down into the coffin,
prayed, andsat calmly on the
upturned spikes. The coffin was
sealed and nailed down with an-
other plank; then the entire pit
was covered over. with cement.
The crowd looked on in a heavy
silence.
This was on a Saturday and
for the next 24 hours in New
Delhi the sadhu was to perform
his 101st burial penance, Trained
m yoga since childhood, he had
performed the Ban Samadhi pen-
ances (lying on a bed of arrow
points) and Jal Samadhi feats
(lying under water). Now,
throwing himself into a trance,
he was going through the Bhumi
Samadhi ritual (living under-
ground). He was not, his dis-
ciples said, one of the Aghori
sadhus who stalk the country-
side carrying spears and knives.
Neither was he one of the Mange
sadhus who go about naked to
show they have "nothing to
hide". these plagued India's
500,000 villages, threatening to
curse families for generations to
come unless they got alms for
their "blessings". This man, the
disciples claimed, was only seek-
ing divine powers to use "for the
welfare of the people". (He had
already turned down a $150,000
contract to perform his burial
feat in the U.S,, they said.)
Hours passed. The crowd swell -i
eel to 5,000. These were not un-
sophisticated villagers but in -
eluded scores of government .
employees and officials aware
that ever since a holy man tried
the burin] performance six years
ago (and died), the government
had tried to curb the sadhus and
their practices. Many had bean
particularly annoyed when it
look 250 police two days and
eight casualties to break up a
sadhu ashram (communal settle-
ment) practicing exotic sexual
rites in the state of Uttar Pra-
desh. Yet, in a land drenched
in mysticism, they, too, watched
and waited.
Precisely at 4:15 p.m. as the
24 hours ended, the cement was
hammered away and the coffin
opened. Unconscious, the swami
• recovered when his body was
massaged. Women then rushed
forward to fling flowers at his
feet and the crowd broke into
a hymn. They spread the word
throughout India last month that
his first statement on emerging
from the pit was: "Good begets
good."
ASTON MARTIN DB -4: An Italian face-lifting, no more canvas
hood straps, but still the lines of speed.
British Cars Look Different
By TOM A. CULLEN
NEA Staff Corresponde,nt
LONDON — (NEA) — The
British two-seater sports model
=that most raffish of all motor-
cars—has lost its go -to -hell look..
In fact, it has gone respectable..
For years the British two-seat-
ers—the Morgans, the A. C. Bris-
tols, the Jensens and the M.G.'s
-have been regarded as sym-
bols of everything that is jaunty,
debonair and slightly disrepu-
table. Now they have become
Status Symbols.
Sports car afllcionados could
see it coming months ago. First,
the manufacturers replaced the
beloved fire -engine red, the ca-
nary yellow and kelly green with
subtle pastel shades — "pansy
shades," a sporting type would
call them. Then they called in
the fashion designers from Milan,
Result is that Britain's rake -
hell cars are no longer rakehell.
They look just like any other
well-dressed motorcar.
Gone are the canvas straps that
kept the hood from rattling. Gone
are the bucket seats open to all
types of weather. Gone, too, that
splendid, worm's eye view of the
world from behind an out -size
steering wheel.
There are exceptions. The beau-
tiful Aston Martin DB -4 defiant-
ly betrays its sporting past, de-
spite a face-lift by Superleggera
Of Milan. No amount of Italian
high fashion can disguise its
tiger -crouching lines,
Elsewhere the news from the
motorcar front is good. Produc-
tion is up: 681,000 vehicles for the
first eight months of 1958 as com-
pared to 510,000 for the corre-
sponding period last year. Over-
seas earnings have increased t0
an estimated 1,500 million dol-
lars this year.
British medium-size cars have
not only held their own in the
American market, but increased
their American sales to 117 mil-
lion dollars to the end of August,
as compared to 73 million for the
same period last year.
But it is to the domestic front
that manufacturers and dealers
alike now look eagerly. Thanks
to full employment and increased
pay, the average British skilled
worker can now afford a motor
car for the first time in history.
Liberal hire-purchase terms have
helped to ease the way.
The result is a boom, with
British workers grabbing ears as
fast as they come off the assem-
bly line. Moderate -priced cars, of
course, the Austins, Hillmans
and Morris Minors, in which the
- British excel.
RENAULT'S FLORIDE: Sleek lines, low cost and simplicity.
French Auto Men
Out For Business
By ROSETTE HARGROVE
NEA Staff Correspondent
PARIS — (NEA) — French
auto makers are out, to double
their share of the U.S. market
inthe next two years.
The French designers have
come out with a fistful of 1959
models they're confident will twit
the fancy of Americans. The
new cars are faster, have simpler
lines, use even less gas than the
1958 models.
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"uncluttered exteriors," their
lack of tail fins, their absence of
gadgets. They claim their 1959
cars are roomier in feel with-
out actually being larger. They
assert these cars will be even
cheaper to maintain than past
models.
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this by 50 to 60 per cent this
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Citroen's DS 19 Prestige is de-
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A soundproof roll -up glass panel
between the front seat and the
back gives the businessman pri-
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through a microphone hookup
with the front. A radio -telephone
is attached to the rear of the
front seat.
Renault has a new sports car
•called the Floride. The body is
by the famed Italian designer
Ghia. The French count on its
sleek lines, low cost and sim-
plicity to attract Americans away
from the fancier highly -chrom-
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in France.
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Renault's new version of its pop-
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