Count ninety-nine negroes and one white horse, and the first boy you answer “yes” or “no” to you will marry.
South Boston, Mass.

Count ninety-nine negroes and one white horse, and the first boy you answer “yes” or “no” to you will marry.
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 205.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
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