BOOK FIFTH. PROGNOSTICATIONS CONCERNING THE BIRTH OF CHILDREN, FROM THE MOON’S AGE----CONCERNING THE DAY OF THE MONTH ONE MAY BE TAKEN SICK----TOGETHER WITH SOME IMPORTANT MATTERS RELATIVE TO LOVE-CHARMS AND SIGNS. 1. A child born within twenty-four hours after the new moon, will be fortunate, and live to a good old age. Whatever is dreamt on that day will be fortunate and pleasing to the dreamer. 2. The second day is very lucky for discovering things lost, or hidden treasure ; the child born on this day shall thrive. 3. The child born on the third day, will be fortunate through persons in power, and whatever is dreamed will prove true. 4. The fourth day is bad; persons falling sick on this day, rarely recover. 5. The fifth day is favorable to begin a good work, and the dreams will be tolerably successful; the child born on this day will be vain and deceitful. 6. The sixth day, the dreams will not immediately come to pass, and the child born wiU not live long. 7. On the seventh day do not tell your dreams, for much depends on concealing them ; if sickness befalls you on this day, you will soon recover ; the child born will live long, but have many troubles. 8. On the eighth day, the dreams will come to pass; whatever business a person undertakes on this day will prosper. 9. The ninth day differs very little from the former; the child born on this day will arrive at great riches and honor. 10. The tenth day is likely to be fatal; those who fall sick will rarely recover; but the child born on this day will live long and be a great traveller. 11. The child that is born on the eleventh day will be much addicted to religion, of an engaging form and manners.
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