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Superstition #186

When the call of the first turtle-dove is heard, sit down and remove the shoe and stocking from the left foot, turn the stocking inside out, in the heel of which if a hair is found, it will be of the color of the hair of the future husband or wife.

In Mt. Desert, Maine, and Prince Edward Island the same project is tried on hearing the first robin.

Tennessee.

Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 186.

Fanny D. Bergen, editor.

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