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Superstition #181

Put four names of boys on four slips of paper and take one blank slip. Intermingle them, and then without looking at them put one under each leg of the bed and one under the pillow. The name of the last will be that of your future husband.

Franklin, Mass.

Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 181.

Fanny D. Bergen, editor.

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