At night before going to bed take one of your garters and tie it in a knot and hang it on the bed-post above your head. While tying repeat,—
This knot I tie, this knot I knit,
To see the young man I haven’t seen yet.
Chestertown, Md.
Superstition #233
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 233.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
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