692. When you drop a knife or fork, and it sticks up in the floor, you will have good luck.
693. It is lucky to find a rusty knife or other steel instrument.
Maine.
694. If a knife be spun round, care should be taken to spin it back again, otherwise it insures bad luck.
695. Often verses of Proverbs xxxi. are assigned to girls and boys respectively according to the day of the month of the birth.
Labrador and Brookline, Mass.
696. It brings bad luck to the bearer of a ring to have it taken from her finger by another person.
Massachusetts.
697. Measuring one’s waist, as for a dress, will bring ill luck.
698. To turn a loaf of bread upside down is ill luck.