Quebec

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• #143

  If you cannot make your thumb and one finger meet around your wrist, you are a glutton.

  Province of Quebec.
• #144

  If you cannot touch the tips of your little finger and first finger together behind the two middle fingers, on both hands, then you will not marry the man you want to marry.

  Province of Quebec.
• #177

  If two girls on sleeping together for the first time tie their waists together with string or thread, and the thread gets broken in the night, the first man who puts his arm round the waist of either will have the first name of the man whom that girl will marry, whether that man is the one or not.

  Province of Quebec.
• #195

  Put a four-leaved clover in your shoe, and you will marry a man having the first name of the man whom you meet first after doing it.

  Province of Quebec.
• #272

  Have some one call a star which you have picked out, by the name of a young man. The next time you meet this man, if his face is toward you, he loves you; if his side, he likes you; if his back, he hates you.

  Province of Quebec and Bedford, Mass.
• #407

  If a girl wears a yellow garter (which has been given to her) every day for a year, or every day and night for six months, at the end of that time she will be married.

  Montreal, P. Q.
• #431

  If you take a baby in your arms for the first time, and at the same time wish, you will get your wish before the year is out.

  Quebec.
• #480

  It is a sign of bad news to dream about a white horse.

  Quebec.
• #771

  If you are offered an article of food at the table, which you already have on your plate, but forgetting that you have it, take some more, it is a sign that a stranger is coming to your house before you eat another meal.

  Quebec.
• #1273

  It is unlucky to turn back after having once started out.

  Quebec.
• #1288

  Step over a living thing, and that thing, whether a human being or not, will not grow any more.

  Province of Quebec, Can.
• #1297

  When two persons put one hand of each flat together, palm to palm, they will quarrel.

  Province of Quebec, Can.
• #1392

  Crooked pins are a sign that the owner is an old maid.

  Province of Quebec, Can.