Northern mythology

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NORTH GERMAN CUSTOMS AND SUPERSTITIONS. 143
For this purpose, before
following rimes
going to sleep^ they repeat the
Andreas-Abend ist heute,
Schlafen alle Leiite,
Schlafen alle Menschenkind,
Die zwischen Himmel und Erde
sind.
Bis auf diesen einzigen Mann,
Der mir zur Ehe werden kann.
St. Andrew's eve is to-day,
Sleep all people,
Sleep all chikh'en of men.
Who are between heaven and
earth,
Except this only man,
Who may be mine in marriasre.
If a girl desires to know in what neighbourhood the
man dwells, who is one day to be her husband, she must go,
between eleven and twelve o'clock at night, in perfect silence,
into the garden, shake the hedge, and repeat these words :
Erbzaun ich schiittel Dich,. Old hedge, I shake thee,
Ich riittel Dich.
I jog thee.
Wo mein fein Liebchen wohnt. Where my gentle lover dwells,
da regti sichs.
there let there be stirring.
Kann er sich nicht selber melden. If he cannot announce himself.
So lass nur ein Hiindchen bellen. Then only let a Httle dog bark.
Then will a dog be heard to bark in the neighbourhood
where the future lover dwells.
The future husband may be also made to appear on St.
Andrew's eve by the following process. At nightfall let
a girl shut herself up naked in her sleeping room, take
two beakers, and into one pour clear water, into the other
wine. These let her place on the table, which is to be
covered with white, and repeat the following words,
Dresmes
Mein lieber Sankt Andi-es !
Lass doch vor mir erscheinen
Den Herzallerliebsten meinen.
Soil er mir werden reich,
Schenkt er mir eine Kanne Wein
Soil er mir werden arm.
So schenke mir eine Kanne Wasser.
My dear Saint Andi-ew !
Let now appear before me
My heart's most dearly beloved.
If he shall be rich,
He mil pour a cup of wine ;
If he is to be poor.
Let him pour a cup of water.
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