403. If you have good success in building a fire, you will have a smart husband; if bad success, a lazy husband.
St. John, N. B., and Ohio.
404. If a lock of hair over the forehead (“widow’s lock”) be cut before marriage, the girl will be a widow.
Labrador.
405. Get a lady friend to knit you a yellow garter. She must ask a gentleman unknown to you to knit ten rows. You will meet and marry the gentleman within a year.
406. The exchange of one yellow garter means a proposal in six months.
Washington, D. C.
407. If a girl wears a yellow garter (which has been given to her) every day for a year, or every day and night for six months, at the end of that time she will be married.
Montreal, P. Q.
408. If you burn a lover’s letter, he will never marry you.