Young girls on going to bed at night place their shoes at right angles to one another, in the form of the letter T, repeating this rhyme:—
Hoping this night my true love to see,
I place my shoes in the form of a T.
Northern Ohio.
Superstition #234
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 234.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
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