A rhyme on stockings and shoes:—
Point your shoes towards the street,
Leave your garters on your feet,
Put your stockings on your head,
You’ll dream of the man you are going to wed.
Eastern Massachusetts.
Superstition #237
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 237.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
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