Leather socks (khuff)

Seeing leather socks worn on the feet for ablution signifies, for an unmarried person, marriage to a righteous woman. Such socks may also signify a servant, property, and protection from bad things.

Wearing two leather socks signifies travel by sea or on a mount.

Wearing tight leather socks signifies sorrow, distress, and being pursued over a debt.

Wearing them together with a wrap signifies superiority in rank and abundant livelihood. It is said that seeing them at the beginning of winter signifies good, while seeing them at the end of winter or in summer signifies sorrow and grief. Leather socks may also signify a wife.

Finding only one sock signifies turning toward this world while abandoning the hereafter, and leaving obligatory acts while occupying oneself with supererogatory ones.

Seeing one's sock fall into a well or burn signifies, for a married person, the death of the wife.

Seeing leather socks that one has never worn signifies property coming from foreign peoples. If an unmarried man buys leather socks with torn soles, it signifies that the woman he marries will be a widow.

Seeing both socks stolen signifies two kinds of sorrow. Leather socks may also be interpreted as animals; whatever happens to the socks happens to the animal. Losing one of two socks signifies losing half of one's property; losing both signifies losing all of it.