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Superstition #178

After getting ready for bed in silence, take a ball of string and wind about the wrist, repeating,—

I wind, I wind,
This night to find,
Who my true love’s to be;
The color of his eyes,
The color of his hair,
And the night he’ll be married to me.

Chestertown, Md.

Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 178.

Fanny D. Bergen, editor.

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