Part 18 (1/2)

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._

432. Take your Bible and wish. If it opens at ”and it came to pa.s.s,” you will get your wish.

433. Wish upon a candle on blowing it out. If it glows long, you will get your wish. If it smokes, it signifies a death.

_Ohio._

434. If a speck of carbon comes on the wick when burning, and you wish for something, wet your finger and touch the speck. If it sticks to your finger, you will get the wish, and _vice versa_.

_Plymouth, O._

435. Swallow a chicken's heart whole and make a wish. It will come true.

_Pennsylvania and Ohio._

436. Throw an egg out of the second story window and wish. If it does not break, you will get your wish.

_Deer Isle, Me._

437. Throw an eyelash over your shoulder. If it falls from your finger in doing this, your wish will come true. If it remains on the finger, your wish will not come to pa.s.s.

_New York._

438. Find a stray eyelash; place it on the back of the hand with a wish; blow it off. If it blows off at the first trial, the wish will come true.

_St. John, N.B., and Pennsylvania._

439. Put a loose eyelash on the back of your hand. It signifies a letter.

Wish from whom the letter may come, carry it three times around your head, then throw it over your shoulder, and you will get your wish.

_New England._

440. Put an eyewinker down inside your clothes, wish, and you'll get your wish.

_Maine._

441. Put an eyewinker on the back of the hand, knock that hand with the other so as to throw the eyewinker over the shoulder, and at the same time wish. If the eyewinker is not seen again, the wish will come true.

_Stoneham, Ma.s.s._

442. If you wish on the first thing you eat in the season, the wish will come true.

443. Wish with two paper slips or gra.s.s blades, the ends only being shown. The longer wins.

444. Wish on a load of hay, and you'll be sure to get it.

_Winn, Me._

445. Wish when you see a hay-cart, don't look at it again, and you'll get the wish.

_New Jersey._

446. See a white horse; don't look at his tail, but wish.

447. Wish on a ”calico” horse.

448. You may wish on a row of empty barrels, or on a piebald horse, but you must not look on the object a second time.