On Halloween a girl is to go through a graveyard, steal a cabbage and place it above the house-door. The one on whom the cabbage falls as the door is opened is to be the girl’s husband.
Massachusetts.
Superstition #309
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 309.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
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