In Brittany young people prove the good faith of their lovers by a pretty ceremony.

On St.John's Eve, the men, wearing bunches of green wheat ears, and the women decorated with flax blossoms, assemble round an old historic stone and place upon it their wreaths.

Should these remain fresh for some time after, the lovers represented by them are to be united; but should they wither and die away, it is a certain proof that the love will as rapidly disappear.

Again, in Sicily it is customary for young women to throw from their windows an apple into the street, which, should a woman pick up, it is a sign that the girl will not be married during the year.

Sometimes it happens that the apple is not touched, a circumstance which indicates that the young lady, when married, will ere long be a widow.