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Superstition #247

Set the table in silence for two at eleven o’clock P. M., with bread and butter and silver knives and forks. Two girls sit down at twelve, and say, “Whoever my true love may be, come and eat this supper with me.”

Winn, Me.

Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 247.

Fanny D. Bergen, editor.

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