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Superstition #317

“Silent Supper.” On Halloween set a table as if for supper, with as many seats at the table as there are girls, each girl standing behind a chair at the table. The one you are to marry will come in and take the chair in front of you.

Chestertown, Md.

Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 317.

Fanny D. Bergen, editor.

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