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—Don’t take fire or dirty water out of the house on New Year’s day.
—Don’t do work on New Year’s day that you don’t want to be doing all year. Ala® Poe, who grew up in Amissville, remembers that his mother believed this. Women tried not to wash or scrub floors, for fear that they’d spend a year doing this kind of work. Many women, however, tried to cook especially good meals so that good meals would be served throughout the New Year.
—A great deal of significance was attached to the first visitor to appear on New Year’s day. This was a superstition widely practiced locally. The worst luck was to have a woman as your first visitor. Poe remembers that women were to stay at home in Order to prevent this misfortune. Ruby Jenkins Washington said that she remembered that a woman
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