Note 101 — Chapter VI · THE EVIL EYE AND THE SCARING OF GHOSTS.
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An odd number is generally believed to be inauspicious. It is for this reason that newly-married girls are not sent to their husbands’ house for the first time in any of the odd years of their age. They are also not sent back to their parents’ house in an odd year of their age for the same reason.101