You will not cry in peeling onions if you hold a bit of bread in the mouth.
Or, put the bread on the point of the knife.
Prince Edward Island, Cambridge, Mass. (Irish).
Maine.
Maine.
Superstition #862
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 862.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
Regional browsing
Maine · Massachusetts · Prince Edward Island
Modern normalized navigation; the historical attribution above remains unchanged.