Stick a piece of live-forever up on the wall, and in whatever direction it leans, the lover will come from that quarter.
Miramichi, N. B.

Stick a piece of live-forever up on the wall, and in whatever direction it leans, the lover will come from that quarter.
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 255.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
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