{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/celt/ali/ali105.htm","path":"neu/celt/ali/ali105.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/ali/ali105.htm","text":"Love Dreams\nThe girl who wishes to see her future husband must go out and gather certain herbs in the light of the full moon of the new year, repeating this charm--\n\"Moon, moon, tell unto me \nWhen my true love I shall see?\nWhat fine clothes am I to wear?\nHow many children shall I bear?\nFor if my love comes not to me\nDark and dismal my life will be.\"\nThen the girl, cutting three pieces of clay from the sod with a black-hafted knife, carries them home, ties them up in the left stocking with the right garter, places the parcel under her pillow, and dreams a true dream of the man she is to marry and of all her future fate.","title":"Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions of Irel...","type":"page"}