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Superstition #68

A boy who desires to tell an extravagant story without being guilty of a lie would point with his thumb over his left shoulder. If he should succeed in accomplishing this without the observation of the boy to whom he is talking, so much the better.

Biddeford, Me.

Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 68.

Fanny D. Bergen, editor.

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