At Christmas or New Year’s children, on first meeting, call out “My Christmas-gift,” or “New Year’s-gift,” and the one who calls first is to receive a gift from the other.
Mansfield, O.
Superstition #78
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 78.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
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