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Superstition #817

If a fish-hook pierces the hand, stick it three times into wood, in the name of the Trinity, to prevent festering or other evil consequences.

Newfoundland.

Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 817.

Fanny D. Bergen, editor.

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