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Superstition #311

On Halloween put an egg to roast before the fire and leave the doors and windows open. When it begins to sweat a cat will come in and turn it. After the cat will come the man you are to marry, and he will turn it. If you are to die unmarried, the shadow of a coffin will appear.

Chestertown, Md.

Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 311.

Fanny D. Bergen, editor.

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