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

Author: Various; Bell, George, 1814-1890 [Editor]

Genre: Notes and Queries

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37379

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## Summary

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_. Sir Thomas Browne shows that this was perhaps the continuation of ancient superstition; and it is peculiarly remarkable that amongst the Romans the _Dies Veneris_ (Friday) should have been thought unlucky for _hair-cutting_. His reference to the crime of Manasses, "of observing times," enters into no detail, and the text is evidently a general condemnation of superstitious observances. I may as well here remark that Br...

## Chapters

- [ii. It ran thus:](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/notes-and-queries-number-84-june-7-1851-a-medium-of-inter-commu-7a2e1643/chapters/1/index.md)
- [PART I., PRICE NINEPENCE.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/notes-and-queries-number-84-june-7-1851-a-medium-of-inter-commu-7a2e1643/chapters/3/index.md)
- [PART I., forming PART XV. of HALF-HOURS, JUNE 2nd.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/notes-and-queries-number-84-june-7-1851-a-medium-of-inter-commu-7a2e1643/chapters/2/index.md)