Put three raw beans in your mouth, go out of doors, stand in front of some one’s window and listen. The first man’s name you hear spoken will be either that of your future husband or of the one having the same name.
Salem, Mass.
Superstition #249
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 249.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
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