Go to the woodpile and say, “Johnnie with your fingers, and Willie with your toes,” and something (suthin) will come out of the woodpile and tear off all your clothes (close).
Gilsum, N. H.
Superstition #88
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 88.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
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