The mother-in-law’s test of the incoming daughter-in-law is to place a broom on the floor. If the daughter removes it and places it on one side, she will be a good housewife; if she steps over it, she will be a bad housewife.
Labrador.
Superstition #330
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 330.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
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