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Superstition #307

I wind, I wind, my true love to find,
The color of his hair, the clothes he’ll wear,
The day he is married to me.

Throw a ball of yarn into a barn, old house, or cellar, and wind, repeating the above lines, and the true love will appear and wind with you. To be tried at twelve o’clock at night, on Halloween.

Maine.

Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 307.

Fanny D. Bergen, editor.

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