Throw a ball of yarn into an unoccupied house, and holding the end of the yarn, wind, saying, “I wind and who holds?” The one who is to be your future wife or husband will be seen in the house.
Ohio.
Superstition #301
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 301.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
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