The first time you sleep in a house, upon retiring place the shoes in the form of a T, and say over,—
My true love by-and-by for to see,
Be as she (or he) be,
Bear as she (or he) may,
The clothes she (or he) wears every day.
Boston, Mass.
Superstition #235
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 235.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
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