The salt ceremony was always applied when some salt spilled from a
salt cellar (Salzfass). This was considered to be a sign that some
quarrel is going to break out.
"Wenn’s Salzfass fällt, dann gibt es sicher Zank.“
I remembered a short German poem, a preferred one of my mother,
although not written by Schiller.
Found it on the net. If you read German go to Google and write Das
Salzfass you will get a concise picture about superstition and its
causality, especially on marriage, women and mothers in law.
Berti.
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 10:17 PM, cornel fleming
<cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net> wrote:
>
> And if you had a button sewn back on without getting undressed you had to
> chew on a thread..or so my mother and grandmother said!! Cornel
>
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