For this blog, I selected some traditions or superstitions about weddings. The first curiosity, the English believe that a spider found in a wedding dress means good luck, or that, according to the English folklore, Saturday is the unluckiest wedding day despite the fact it is the most popular day of the week for marry. For the Brazilians, there isn't an unlucky day, but an unlucky month, August. Moroccan women take a milk bath to purify themselves before their wedding ceremony, while in Holland, a pine tree is planted outside the newlyweds' home as a symbol of fertility and luck. Engagement and wedding rings are worn on the fourth finger of the left hand because it was once thought that a vein in that finger led directly to the heart. Some traditions are interesting because reveal why things are as they are, and read about these curiosities was fun. There are many others, do you know any?
I wonder why August is considered unlucky. In Canada, it's a pretty common month for people to get married.
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I selected some traditions or superstitions about weddings.
Saturday is the unluckiest wedding day despite the fact it is the most popular...
It's probably more a superstition, because in Brazil the month of August is known as a month of bad luck. The sound of the word August in Portuguese rhymes with the sound of the word disgust. In Brazil people say, "August is the month of disgust."
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