If you begin a quilt on Friday, you will never live to finish it.
An act of this sort gave great distress to a domestic servant, who, until after the completion of the quilt, daily expected disaster. This woman came from French Canada.
Maine.
Superstition #1189
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 1189.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
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