Amador Ledger-Dispatch, 2 October 1908 — Brides and Wet Weather. [ARTICLE]

Brides and Wet Weather.

A Breton bride rather likes to have a wet wedding. It Is held to signify that all her tears are now shed and that she will therefore have v happy married life. I know of no similar belief In the British Isles.

The Erzu of Simbirsk call the day before the wedding the weeping day, and the bride and her girl friends weep all they can. with the idea, it would seem, of getting the mourning of life over so that only Joy may remain.

The Badagas of the Nellgherrles attain the same end by sousing the bride with water. Some Greek tribes have a similar belief iv the virtue of a drenching bringing good fortune.