While tying on a baby’s cap repeat,—
Look up there and see a fly,
Look down there and see it die.
Its chin will follow the direction indicated, and the tying is hastened.
Brookline, Mass.
Superstition #44
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 44.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
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