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Superstition #283

Girls prepare basins of dirty and of clean water. If a blindfolded girl puts a stick, with which she reaches about, into the dirty water, she will marry a widower. If into clean water, she will marry a young man.

Labrador.

Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 283.

Fanny D. Bergen, editor.

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