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Superstition #845

To cure hiccoughs repeat in one breath the words,—

There was an old woman who lived all alone,
And she was made of skin and bone.
One day to church she went to pray,
And on the ground a man there lay,
And from his head unto his feet
The worms crawled in, the worms crawled out.

Boston, Mass.

Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 845.

Fanny D. Bergen, editor.

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