If a piece of wedding-cake is passed through a ring and put in the left stocking, then placed under the pillow and slept on three nights running, you will dream of your lover, or he or she will come to you.
New England.
Superstition #266
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 266.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
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