In france
: The bride forever preserve her wedding shoes to assure a lifetime of
compatible and productive physical union.
In Sicily:
Young women sleep with a shoe under their pillow to improve their
chance of getting a husband.
In Greece:
Woman believee that a lost lover can be retrieved by burning an old shoe.
In spain and Maxico:
Women toss a slipper into the bullring to aplaud the matador and matador
picks up shoe gently as kitten, kisses them and tosses back into the crowd.
In Bohemia: (This is more interesting)
Hens are believed to lay more and bigger eggs when given peas out of a shoe
on the eves of Holy Days.
