Hope allows the person to escape from fear and amulets are made for security so the fear will not reappear. Amulets for a couple committing themselves to each other. Amulets for their newborn children and death because all three passages, marriage, childbirth and death, have an unknown future. The colour of a dress in a marriage symbolizes a woman's maidenhood: "Married in Pink, your spirit will sink" "Married in Grey, you will go far away" "…showed first 75 words of 585 total…

…showed last 75 words of 585 total…want to forget about the death of their departed friends or family members. In a way, superstitious rituals are there to separate our lives from the dead. Even though amulets may stop us from fear we pass our customs to our children and the process of fear and hope through marriage, childbirth and death, starts all over again. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** BIBLIOGRAPHY "Wedding Customs and Superstitions" Newsbrief. Mar. 27/2000. http:// www.weddings.co.uk/info/tradsupe.htm