She must not wear wholly white clothes, because a widow wears these.

If a man places one of his shoes over the other in the house, it is an omen that he will go on a journey when the shoes will be in a similar position as he walks along.

A Kolta woman who desires to ascertain whether she will have a son, puts a fish into a pot full of water and spreads her cloth by it.

If the fish jumps into her lap, it is thought that her lap will shortly hold another living being, that is a son.

At a wedding, in many Hindu castes, the bride and bridegroom perform the business of their caste or an imitation of it.