Mountains of North Carolina.
1405. If you wash your face in dew before sunrise on May Day, you will become very beautiful.
Alabama.
1406. Dry spots, where there is no dew, are called “fairy rings.”
Salem, Mass.
1407. Run round a fairy ring twice on Easter Sunday morning, and fairies will arise and follow you.
Salem, Mass.
1408. The looking-glass is often turned with the face to the wall, or taken out of the room during a thunder-storm, because “quick-silver is so bad to draw the lightning.”
Bathurst, N. B.