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When Lord Clydesdale brought his bride, Lady Elizabeth Percy, to his ancestral home at Strathaven, Lanarkshire, after their honeymoon last December a Scots bannock was broken over the bride's head for luck as the bridegroom carried her over the threshold.
After breaking the cake over the bride's head, according to ancient custom, the pieces were given to onlookers, who, receiving them, were supposed to dream that night of their future spouse.
Smollett describes how, "A. cake being broken over the head of Mrs. Tabitha Lismahago, the fragments were distributed among the bystanders, according to the custom of the ancient Britons, on the supposition that every person who ate of this hallowed cake should that night have a vision of the man or woman whom Heaven designed should be his or her wedded mate."
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