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Superstition #725

If the left hand itches and you rub it on wood, you’ll receive money before the end of the week.

Rub it on wood
To make it good.

Very common in New Brunswick and New England.

Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 725.

Fanny D. Bergen, editor.

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