Go out at midnight and walk around a peach-tree, repeating,—
Low for a foreigner,
Bark for a near one,
Crow for a farmer,
Screek, tree, screek, if I’m to die first.
Quaker Neck, Md.
Superstition #245
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 245.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
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