Emberton, Bucks.
_Wedding Divination_ (Vol. vii., p. 545.).--The following mediaeval
superstition may be quoted as a pretty exact parallel of the _wedding
divination_ alluded to by OXONIENSIS. It is from Wright's selection of
Latin stories of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Harl. MS. 463.:--
"Vidi in quibusdam partibus, quando mulieres nubebant, et de ecclesia
redibant, in ingressu domus in faciem corum frumentum projiciebant,
clamantes: 'Abundantia! Abundantia!' quod Gallice dicitur _plente_,
_plente_; et tamen plerumque, antequam annus transiret, pauperes
mendici remanebant et abundantia omni bonorum carebant."