Connecticut

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• #248

  Take beans in the hand, go out of doors and throw them against the window. The first man’s name that you hear spoken is the name of the man you will marry.

  Connecticut.
• #264

  Hang a gold ring over a glass of water, from a hair, saying the name of some man. If the ring strikes the side of the glass three times you will marry him.

  Willimantic, Conn.
• #394

  If a gentleman stayed to dinner and by accident got two knives, two forks, or two spoons, at his plate, he would be married within a year, and there was no help for it.

  Connecticut.
• #457

  Put a ring on the finger of another person, saying, “I wish it on until such a time,” and if it is not removed before the expiration of the period named, the wish will come to pass.

  Connecticut and Ohio.
• #735

  When you see a shooting star, say “money.” As many times as you are able to repeat the word during the fall of the star, so many dollars you will have in your pocket.

  Connecticut.
• #742

  If you go around the chimney without sitting down, you will bring company to that house.

  Guilford, Conn.
• #753

  If you go in at the back (or front) door of a house, and out at the front (or back) without sitting down, you will bring company.

  Guilford, Conn.
• #886

  Rub a white bean on the warts, wrap it in paper, and throw it on the road; whoever picks it up will get the warts.

  Connecticut.
• #903

  To cure warts: Cut your finger-nails and put them in the knothole of a tree; then stop up the hole, wishing the warts on to some one else.

  Connecticut.
• #1290

  To comb the hair after dark is a sign of sickness.

  Comb your hair after dark,
  Comb sorrow to your heart.

  Connecticut.
• #1327

  If you stub your toe going into a house, you are not wanted there.

  Guilford, Conn.
• #1379

  If one mends his clothes upon his back,
  It is a sign his trouble will never come back.

  Connecticut.