317. “Silent Supper.” On Halloween set a table as if for supper, with as many seats at the table as there are girls, each girl standing behind a chair at the table. The one you are to marry will come in and take the chair in front of you.
Chestertown, Md.
318. On Halloween write names of three men on three pieces of paper, roll them into balls, put these into balls made of Indian meal (wet so as to roll up), put the balls of meal into a basin of water: whichever one rises to the top bears the name of the one you’ll marry.
Salem, Mass.
319. On Halloween, girls place three saucers beside each other, two filled with earth and water, in the other a ring. They are respectively death, cloister or unmarried life, and marriage.
Convent School, Manchester, N. H.
320. On Easter Monday, put on one black garter and one yellow one, and wear them constantly, and you’ll have a proposal before the year is out.
Chestertown, Md.
321. Knit a garter and color it yellow. Don it on Easter Day. Wear it for a year. The wearer will be engaged before the year is out.
Salem, Mass.