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Superstition #318

On Halloween write names of three men on three pieces of paper, roll them into balls, put these into balls made of Indian meal (wet so as to roll up), put the balls of meal into a basin of water: whichever one rises to the top bears the name of the one you’ll marry.

Salem, Mass.

Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 318.

Fanny D. Bergen, editor.

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