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Superstition #716

If a group of bubbles are floating on the tea or coffee cup, take them up in a spoon, and swallow them unbroken, saying, “Save my money.”

Plymouth and Salem, Mass., and New Brunswick.

Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 716.

Fanny D. Bergen, editor.

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