Notes and Queries

Notes and Queries, Number 84, June 7, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.

The meaning given to it was, that cutting horn was a kind of _work_, and therefore a breach of the Sabbath and that cutting hair on the Friday was, like a hundred other things, thought unlucky on a Friday, from some obscure reference to the great sacrifice of _Good Friday_. Si...