If a garment is cut out on Friday, the person for whom it is made will not live unless it is finished on the same day.
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If a garment is cut out on Friday, the person for whom it is made will not live unless it is finished on the same day.
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 1188.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
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