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SUPEESTITIONS OF WOMEN. 



Chap. II. 



answer to their prayer. Hence it is not Tiniisual 

 to see a whole heap of tiny shoes in one of these 

 shrines. In former days the custom of throwing 

 an old shoe after a person for luck was not unusual 

 in Scotland, and may have been introduced from 

 that ancient country to China or vice versa. 



