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Christmas morning could bring good luck or bad for the coming year, depending on many things. If the chirping of a cricket was heard on this morning, it was a sign of good luck just as to bring anything made of leather, into the house was considered unlucky. A woman or girl entering the house first was bad luck and a dark haired boy meant more good luck than a fair haired lad. Young girls approaching marriageable age could learn a little about their future husband. On Christmas morning she would knock on the door of a pig sty. If an old hog grunted first, her husband would be an old man; but if a yound pig squealed, her husband would be young.
It used to be believed every Christmas a number of angels were sent from Heaven to awaken an infant child from its first sleep s it could be taken to Paradise to sing a carol in honor of the Christ Child.
These superstitions, the pretty the catle fall on their knees and today but they still make for interesting story telling.
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