Take a live-forever leaf, squeeze it to loosen the inner and outer skin. If it makes a balloon as you blow into it, you will be married and live a long time. If it does not, you will be an old maid.
St. John, N. B.
Superstition #254
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 254.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
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