What they say in New England; a book of signs, sayings, and superstitions (1896)
Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940, comp · Boston, Lee and Shepard · leaf 48
fter youveeaten breakfast. To dream of picking blackberries is asign of sickness. Sleep with a piece of wedding-cakeunder your pillow for three nights insuccession, and whatever you dream ofon the third night will come to pass. You cant always dream, though. Iknow I tried it when Jenny was… … CHARMS Let a young woman pin a four-leafclover over the door, and the first un-married man who comes in the doorwill be the one she is to marry. If, instead, the maiden prefers to eatthe clover, or to put it in her shoe, shemay recognize her fate in the first un-married man she meets afterwards. If…
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