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Five is 2, 3 or the combination of the first of the equals and the first of the unequals, hence also the combination of the good and evil powers of nature.
Three or the "triad" contains the mystery of mysteries, for everything is composed of three substances.
Two or the "dyad" is the symbol of diversity, the evil principle.
The Siamese fear odd numbers.
Thirteen is an ill number.
Sixteen is a good number.
Unity or the "monad" is deity or the first cause of all things the good principle.
Eighteen is an unlucky number.
Ten is a perfect number.
Eleven is an evil number.
Ten was held in reverence as the symbol of the Absolute by the Pythagoreans.
The number 4 is lucky among Indians.
Keep a thing seven years and you will have a use for it.
Five is a number of domination and knowledge.
Four was highly revered by the Pythagoreans; they swore by it.
Eight is the number of justice.
Witch ointments to be effective must contain seven herbs.
Three kinds of wood will make bewitched water boil.
The Egyptians considered the number 1, as sacred.
50 and 60 are lucky numbers.
Never tell a person your age, if it is an even number.
Virgil says that "the gods themselves esteem the numbers odd."
In Japan three is a particularly unlucky number, and three never sit at table together.
The Siamese have a horror of odd numbers and were never known to put an odd number of windows or doors in a house or temple.
When you are figuring, and after having added several columns the figures are all the same, it is a very excellent sign.
Nineteen is the number of the sun and gold and is a good omen.
The Venetians associated mystic powers with the number 19.
Twenty-eight is the number of the moon and silver, uncertain.
The Chinese consider 9 an unlucky number.
Nine is a good omen. Chinese and Africans have a great reverence for it.
Years having double 8 or 5 or 7 are very unlucky to sea-faring people; e. g., 1888, 1877 or 1855.
The number 88 is fatal to the royal family of Stuart.
Six is considered a very unlucky number in Madagascar.
The Romans regarded an even number as unlucky because since it could be divided equally, it was the emblem of death and dissolution.
A pin stuck by the plate of the thirteenth at table will destroy the evil effects of that unlucky number.
It is said that when misfortune overtook McQuade, who was in the "boodle board of Aldermen," it was attributed to the fact that he had purchased a house for $13,000 at 313 East 13th New York City.
The Pythagoreans regarded the unit as the principle of good and the duad as the principle of evil.
When thirteen are seated at a table, the one who sits under the beam is the traitor.
Nine, being 3x3, is considered very lucky by the Chinese.
Among the early Christians the number 2, was in bad repute, because on the second day hell was created.
The figure 2 is regarded unlucky by many people.
Among the Chinese the numbers 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 belong to heaven, while the digits 2, 4, 6, 8 are of the earth.
That events move in cycles and are ruled by numbers, was once firmly believed in the old days of astrologers. Three things were sure to happen if they happened twice.
You will have good luck for the year the figures of which added up makes your age. Thus 1895 added makes 23. Those who are 23 in 1895 will be lucky.
A curious significance of numbers is given in the current Magyar belief that there are 33333 witches in Hungary and the devil's grandmother is 777 years old.
In many streets and squares in Florence there is no number 13, but 12 1/2 has been substituted, so that the numbers run 11, 12 1/2 and 14. In this ingenious way the dreaded number is entirely done away with. Houses bearing the unlucky number thirteen rarely find an Italian lodger.
Five, says Pythagoras, has peculiar force in expiations. It is everything! It stops the power of poisons and is redoubted by evil spirits.
Some theatrical people believe that 13 is a lucky number, and sign all contracts on that day of the month.
Six is an unlucky number and has been so ever since Roman ascendency. The 6th day of the 6th month is especially fatal. On the other hand some people claim it to be a perfect number.
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