Note 79 — THE PELICAN. Erdélyi, iii. 6.
Reading edition
In Finland they say that if two persons shake hands across the threshold they will quarrel. In East Bothnia, when the cows are taken out of their winter quarters for the first time, an iron bar is laid before the threshold, over which all the cows must pass, for if they do not, there will be nothing but trouble with them all the following summer. Cf. Suomen Muinaismuisto Yhdistyksen Aikakauskirja, v. p. 99.