Iowa

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• #648

  Spilling salt at table is ill luck to the one towards whom it is spilled.

  Iowa.
• #660

  To go back into the house for something after starting on a journey is unpropitious. To have it brought out is all right.

  Iowa.
• #1224

  If one sings at a table while the family are eating, it means the death of a friend.

  Or bad luck (Virginia); disappointment (New Jersey).

  Webster City, Iowa.
• #1315

  If you sing before you eat,
  You’ll cry before you sleep.

  Ohio and Iowa.