Take three grains of coffee, put one notch on one, two on another, put them in a glass of water under your bed, and name them. The one that sprouts is the one you are going to marry.
Alabama.
Superstition #296
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 296.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
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