508. After you have turned ten signet rings and one diamond ring, the first boy with a red tie on who tips his hat or cap to you is your future husband.

509. Turn sixteen diamond rings and one signet ring.

The first person you meet and speak to thereafter will be your future lover.

510. After you have turned nineteen signet rings, the first boy you meet with a red necktie on you will marry.

511. Turn twenty rings on people's fingers, and notice the color of the last stone. The next boy you see with a tie on of that color is the boy that you will marry.

512. After you have turned a hundred set rings, the boy that you meet with a tie the color of the last stone is your destined mate.

513. When you see the first robin of spring, sit down on a rock, take off your left stocking, and if you find a hair in it, your sweetheart will call to see you.... ...........................Western Kentucky

514. If you run around the house three times and touch the same rock every time, you will see your future husband's hair......................Mountains

515. Take a rose petal and name your sweetheart. If you can make it pop, he loves you........Blue Grass

516. Wear the image of St. Joseph around your neck.

As he is the patron saint of marriage, you will marry soon. The charm will not work unless the image is given you.

517. One who turns salt over on the table will not marry within a year.

518. Eat a thimbleful of salt and go to bed backwards without drinking. You will dream of your sweetheart's handing you a drink.

519. Mix a teaspoonful of meal and a teaspoonful of water, then fry the mixture on the shovel, and eat it. Go to bed backwards. The person you dream about is your future husband or wife... Mountains

520. To shiver without apparent cause is a sign that one is in love.

521. It causes bad luck for a young man to give his sweetheart a pair of shoes, as she will walk away from him........................Louisville Negroes

522. If at bed-time you place your shoes in the shape of T and do not speak again before falling asleep, you will see the one that you are to marry.

523. Sleep with your right shoe under your head for three nights; on the last night you will dream of your future husband or wife...............Mountains

524. Put your right shoe and stocking under your head and say:

"My right shoe and stocking I put under my head, To dream to-night of whom I am to wed, The color of his eyes, the color of his hair, And his every day clothes I wish him to wear." The one that you dream of will be your husband. If you are not to marry, you will dream of a burial ................................Mountains

525. If your shoe-string comes untied, your sweetheart is thinking of you.

526. If your shoe-string comes untied, you are thinking of your sweetheart.............Louisville Negro

527. If your shoe-string comes untied, your sweetheart is angry with you.....................Mountains

528. If your shoe-string comes untied, your girl loves you..................................Mountains

529. If your shoe-string comes untied and you step on it, you will see your sweetheart that day. .Mountains

530. If your skirt turns up, your sweetheart is thinking of you.

531. If the hem turns up when you put on your skirt, you will have a new sweetheart soon.

532. If in walking, a girl's skirt catches on a branch of a shrub or a bush, the number of limbs from the bottom to where it catches is the number of the initial letter of the beau's name whom she will "catch."

533. If a briar catches in your skirt, your beau still loves you.

534. If a bramble catches on a girl's dress, a widower is in love with her...........North-eastern Kentucky

535. If a briar catches your skirt, your sweetheart is thinking of you.

536. Take a skirt, fold it, place it under your left arm, walk backward to the bed, and repeat:

"This is Friday (or any other night) I go to bed

With my skirt under my head.

I'll dream of the living and the dead

And of the one I am to wed."

In silence place the skirt under the pillow, and as you dream so shall it be..............Mountains

537. Three rings of smoke in one day are a sign of a secret marriage ....................Mountains

538. To see two snakes at once is a sign of a wedding.....................................Mountains

539. To sneeze before breakfast is a sign that you will see your sweetheart before Saturday night.

540. "Sneeze before you eat,

See your sweetheart before you sleep."

541. To sneeze three times in succession is a sign that you will never be married.

542. A spider on the neck means that you have a secret lover.......................Western Kentucky

543. To spit on yourself is a sign that you will not be married ...........................Mountains

544. If you spit on a piece of burning wood that falls down and name it for your sweetheart when you replace it, he will come before it burns out..................................Western Kentucky

545. If two spoons are accidentally put into a cup, a wedding will result.

546. To drop a table-spoon is prophetic of your sweetheart's coming.

547. If a girl goes to a spring that she has never visited before and puts a rock from the spring into the hem of her dress, she will marry the first boy that she crosses water with........Southern Kentucky

548. Get a rock from a spring where you have never been before; the one over whose head you can throw the rock directly is the one that you will marry........................................Mountains

549. Kneel at a spring on any night at nine o'clock, with your back to it and repeat:

"If I marry in the spring, let me hear a bird sing" pause. "If I marry in the fall, let me hear a cow bawl." pause. "If I don't marry at all, let me hear my coffin knock."

One of these requests will come true........................................Western Kentucky