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1. Snail (Divination)

   

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   Another plan to find out your future husband was to get a snail and and put it under a sieve. You should shake flour first on the floor where you were to put the snail. Then leave him there for the night. The snail would form out on the floor the initials of the man you were going to marry.

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   Date

   March 1936

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Mrs Brian Murphy

2. Wedding Cake

   

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   Put a bit of wedding cake under the pillow.
   Then get three slips of paper with initials
   of three men, one on each, and one
   blank piece. Pull out wan slip
   every morning, and whichever one
   you pull out last will be the right
   wan. If you drew the blank one
   on the third morning you'd be an auld
   maid.

   

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