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Superstition #822

To get rid of rheumatism: “You go in de lot an’ go up to fence. Den put you breas’ on it and say, ‘I lef you here, I lef you here,’ tree times, den you go ‘way and don’t you never come back dere no more.”

French Canadian.

Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 822.

Fanny D. Bergen, editor.