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Superstition #1465

If, when a newly-married couple go to housekeeping, she slyly takes her mother’s dish-cloth or dish-wiper, she will never be homesick. Old Mrs. —— told me that she believed that was the reason she was not homesick when they moved from Pennsylvania to Ohio.

Ohio.

Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 1465.

Fanny D. Bergen, editor.

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