To make a sale in the first place where an agent calls is good luck. For example, a magnifying-glass worth three dollars was sold for seventy-five cents, in order to stop a run of bad luck by making a sale.
Massachusetts.
Superstition #722
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 722.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
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