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Superstition #86

At the age of six or seven years, a child, while going to a spring to draw water, saw a little creature with wings fly from one star to another, leaving behind an arc of light. She cried to her aunt: “Oh, aunt, I saw a little gold-boy!” Her aunt, somewhat shocked, rebuked the child, who insisted on the literal truth of her vision.

Mansfield, O.

Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 86.

Fanny D. Bergen, editor.

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