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"Current Superstitions Collected from the Oral Tradition of English Speaking Folk"


_New Hampshire._
1320. To sing after you go to bed is a sign that tears will come before
breakfast.
_Maine._
1321. If the sole of either foot itches, you will walk on strange ground.
_Boston, Mass._
1322. When about to begin a new enterprise, one must not step over straws
in starting out.
1323. If you stumble with the right foot, it means a glad surprise.
_Pennsylvania (negro)._
1324. In going anywhere, if you strike the right foot you will be welcome
wherever you may be going, and if the same happens to the left foot, you
will be on strange ground.
_Bellville, O._
1325. To sit on a table is a sign of coming disappointment.
_Maine and Massachusetts._
1326. In drinking tea, if you take a stem in the mouth it means an enemy;
you must bite it and throw it over the right shoulder.
_Central Maine._
1327. If you stub your toe going into a house, you are not wanted there.
_Guilford, Conn._
1328. If, in going visiting, you stub the right toe, you are welcome; if
the left, you are unwelcome.
_Massachusetts and Ohio._
1329. If you stub your toe going anywhere, it means a disappointment.
_Bathurst, N.B._
1330. Stub your toe,
Lose your beau.
_Salem, Mass._
1331. To bite the tongue while talking means that you have told a lie.
1332. If you bite your tongue suddenly while eating, it is a sign some
one is coming hungry.


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