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.
449. Wish on a load of empty barrels, and you will get your wish.
Peabody, Mass.
450. Write the names of one hundred people who (by request) have bowed to you, bury the paper in a secret spot, and at the same time wish. If no one sees you, you will get your wish.
451. Wish while holding a lighted match until it is extinct, and you’ll get the wish.
452. If by chance two use the same words, lock the little fingers, and wish before speaking, saying “Shakespeare” at the end.
Eastern Massachusetts.
453. Let two persons break the wishing-bone of a fowl; the one who gets the longest piece will get his wish.
New Jersey and Ohio.
454. If you say two sentences that rhyme, make a wish, then if you make a rhyme unintentionally and wish before you speak again, your wish will come to pass.