Find a stray eyelash; place it on the back of the hand with a wish; blow it off. If it blows off at the first trial, the wish will come true.
St. John, N. B., and Pennsylvania.
Superstition #438
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 438.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
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