If both
stand or fall together, it is a sign that you will live and die together.
If one fall, it is a sign that one will leave the other.
_Cape Breton._
299. Go out in spring and turn up a brick on the ground, and look under
it at the clay. The color of the clay denotes the color of the hair of
your future husband.
_Chestertown, Md._
300. Cut your finger-nails nine Sundays in succession, and your
sweetheart will dine with you.
_Alabama._
301. Throw a ball of yarn into an unoccupied house, and holding the end
of the yarn, wind, saying, "I wind and who holds?" The one who is to be
your future wife or husband will be seen in the house.
_Ohio._
302. Take a hair from your head. Have some one else take one from his,
cross them, and rub them over each other, and the last thing you say
before one breaks will be the first thing said after you are married.
_Cambridge, Mass._
CHAPTER V.
HALLOWEEN AND OTHER FESTIVALS.
Any of the projects quoted in the last chapter are perhaps more likely to
be practised on Halloween than at other times. However, as girls do amuse
themselves by such fortune-seeking at other times, particularly the first
time they sleep in a room, the various projects have been divided into
two chapters, according to the way in which the various narrators classed
them. That is, when a charm was said to belong to Halloween, it was so
classed.
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