Take a hair from your head. Have some one else take one from his, cross them, and rub them over each other, and the last thing you say before one breaks will be the first thing said after you are married.
Cambridge, Mass.
Superstition #302
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 302.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
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