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for something, wet your finger and touch the speck. If it sticks to your
finger, you will get the wish, and _vice versa_.
_Plymouth, O._

435. Swallow a chicken's heart whole and make a wish. It will come true.
_Pennsylvania and Ohio._

436. Throw an egg out of the second story window and wish. If it does not
break, you will get your wish.
_Deer Isle, Me._

437. Throw an eyelash over your shoulder. If it falls from your finger in
doing this, your wish will come true. If it remains on the finger, your
wish will not come to pass.
_New York._

438. Find a stray eyelash; place it on the back of the hand with a wish;
blow it off. If it blows off at the first trial, the wish will come true.
_St. John, N.B., and Pennsylvania._

439. Put a loose eyelash on the back of your hand. It signifies a letter.
Wish from whom the letter may come, carry it three times around your
head, then throw it over your shoulder, and you will get your wish.
_New England._

440. Put an eyewinker down inside your clothes, wish, and you'll get your
wish.
_Maine._

441. Put an eyewinker on the back of the hand, knock that hand with the
other so as to throw the eyewinker over the shoulder, and at the same
time wish. If the eyewinker is not seen again, the wish will come true.
_Stoneham, Mass._

442. If you wish on the first thing you eat in the season, the wish will
come true.

443. Wish with two paper slips or grass blades, the ends only being
shown. The longer wins.

444. Wish on a load of hay, and you'll be sure to get it.
_Winn, Me._

445. Wish when you see a hay-cart, don't look at it again, and you'll get
the wish.
_New Jersey._

446. See a white horse; don't look at his tail, but wish.

447. Wish on a "calico" horse.

448. You may wish on a row of empty barrels, or on a piebald horse, but
you must not look on the object a second time.

449. Wish on a load of empty barrels, and you will get your wish.
_Peabody, Mass._

450. Write the names of one hundred people who (by request) have bowed to
you, bury the paper in a secret spot, and at the same time wish. If no
one sees you, you will get your wish.

451. Wish while holding a lighted match until it is extinct, and you'll
get the wish.

452. If by chance two use the same words, lock the little fingers, and
wish before speaking, saying "Shakespeare" at the end.