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Superstition #314

On the last night of October place a mirror and a clock in a room that has not been used for some time, and at a quarter to twelve take a lighted candle and an apple, and finish eating the apple just as the clock strikes twelve, and then look in the mirror and you will see your future husband.

Alabama.

Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 314.

Fanny D. Bergen, editor.

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