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Superstition #830

To cure a sty repeat at a cross-roads,—

Sty, sty, leave my eye,
And take the next one that passes by.

Massachusetts, Indiana, and California.

Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 830.

Fanny D. Bergen, editor.

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