If a chair be turned about on one of its forelegs, there will be bad luck in the house all that year.
Talladega, Ala.

If a chair be turned about on one of its forelegs, there will be bad luck in the house all that year.
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 711.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
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