Hang over the door a corn-cob from which you have shelled all but twenty grains. The first man that enters you’ll marry.
Arlington, Mass.

Hang over the door a corn-cob from which you have shelled all but twenty grains. The first man that enters you’ll marry.
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 221.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
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