Illinois

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• #117

  White spots on the nails of the left hand denote the number of lies one has told.

  Maine and Central Illinois.
• #206

  Count forty white horses, the first man you meet afterwards you’ll marry.

  Champaign, Ill.
• #214

  Fortunes are told by pulling off leaflets of a compound leaf, such as the locust, repeating, “Rich man, poor man,” etc.

  Central Illinois.
• #410

  If you pass between two men on the street, you’ll marry both of them sometime.

  Champaign, Ill.
• #953

  If it rains on Easter, it will rain seven Sundays thereafter.

  Hennepin, Ill.
• #1181

  To knock on a door and receive no answer is a sign of death.

  Virginia and Englewood, Ill.
• #1199

  Whoever counts the carriages at a passing funeral will die within the year.

  Or, some one will die.

  Peabody, Mass., and Hennepin, Ill.