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Popular Superstitions of the Winter Season: 1840

POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS OF THE WINTER SEASON From: Saturday, December 26, 1840; Portsmouth Journal of Literature and Politics (Portsmouth NH) page 2 Associated with Christmas and the New Year are many of the popular superstitious rites and ceremonies of former times, … Continue reading

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New Hampshire Glossary: Niddy Noddy

Two hundred years ago, every self-respecting New Hampshire woman

… used a niddy-noddy, or at the very least she knew … Continue reading

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