On Halloween, girls place three saucers beside each other, two filled with earth and water, in the other a ring. They are respectively death, cloister or unmarried life, and marriage.
Convent School, Manchester, N. H.
Superstition #319
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 319.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
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