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Superstition #70

The addition of the words “in a horn” justify a falsehood. In the childhood of the informant, it was not considered honorable to express the words in such manner that they could not be heard by the child with whom conversation was carried on.

Cambridge, Mass.

Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 70.

Fanny D. Bergen, editor.

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