550. The star under which a person is born influences his life.

551. If a star falls, one of your family will be married soon.

552. Name three stars in a row; the one you dream about shows your fate..............Western Kentucky

553. If you see the morning star first over your right shoulder for seven mornings in succession, you will dream about your future husband or wife.

554. If you count seven stars for seven nights, the first person of the opposite sex that you then shake hands with will be your future husband or wife.. ..................................Mountains

555. Count seven stars each night for seven nights; on the seventh night you will dream of your future husband....................Western Kentucky

556. If you count nine stars for nine nights, the first boy you shake hands with will be the one that you will marry......................Southern Kentucky

557. Count thirteen stars for thirteen nights. On the thirteenth night, the person that you dream of is your future wife or husband..........Blue Grass

558. If you steal something to eat and get caught, you will beg after your marriage.

559. If you fall up steps, you will not marry that year.

560. If you bump into a stranger, you will marry someone whom you have never met........Blue Grass

561. If you stumble up the steps, you will not be married for seven years.

562. You can tell your fortune by naming the corners of a lump of sugar just before putting it slowly into your coffee.........................Blue Grass

563. "Silent supper." Several girls make a fire and prepare a supper together, not speaking, and always walking backwards. They place a pan of water on the doorstep and hang a towel near. They sit at the table but do not eat anything. If these conditions are observed, the future husbands of the girls will come, wash, sit opposite them, and finally disappear.

564. After you prepare your supper as in 563, leave it and go; then look back through a crack. You will see your future husband at the table.

565. If anyone sweeps under you, you will never be married.

566. If you sweep under anyone, you will never be married.

567. Burn nine different kinds of switches. When the last one burns, your future husband will come in.

568. To sit on a table is a sign that you wish to marry.

569. "Sit on a table,

Marry when you are able."

570. If you sit on a kitchen table, you will never be married.

571. The one that remains at table longest will be married first.

572. If you sit on a table with a person of the opposite sex, you will marry that person.......Blue Grass

573. If you sit on a table under a joist in the loft, you will never be married................Mountains

574. Fortunes may be told by interpreting the meaning of the tea-leaves left in a cup.

575. The presence of tea-leaves in your teacup means that you will receive a package in as many days as there are tea-leaves......................Blue Grass

576. Put the tea leaves from your cup of tea on the back of your hand and slap it with the other hand. If they fall from the hand with one blow, you will marry within the year. If not, the number of blows it takes to remove the leaves indicates the number of years which will elapse before your marriage... ..................................Blue Grass

577. If your thread knots while you are sewing, name it for your sweetheart. If he loves you, it will come untied.

578. If your thread tangles, your sweetheart is thinking of you.

579. If your thread knots while you are making a garment, you will marry before it wears out.

580. If you can blow all the seeds from a thistle-ball at one blow, you will succeed in your undertakings.

581. If you can blow all the seeds off a thistle-ball, your sweetheart loves you.

582. If a toad hops across the road in front of you, you will see your lover.

583. Follow this receipt to make love powders:

Catch a toad, put it under a rock, and let it starve to death. After it has dried thoroughly, beat it into a powder, and sprinkle this powder on the person whom you wish to fall in love with you.

584. If your great toe itches, you have a dear lover........................................Mountains

585. If you stump your toe and kiss your thumb at the same time, you will see your lover. "Stump your toe, Kiss your thumb, And see your beau."

586. A man whose second toe is longer than his great toe will be henpecked. (Compare 1004.)

587. When two persons tie their toes together and the string breaks, the one with the shorter string will marry first.

588. If two persons tie their great toes together, they will marry the first persons of the opposite sex with whom they shake hands.

589. If you peel a stick toothbrush, you will offend your lover......................Southern Kentucky

590. If when two people are walking together they pass on opposite sides of a tree, post, or other obstacle on the way, they will never marry each other.

591. When you see a turkey-buzzard sailing, say:

"Sail, sail, lonesome turkey-buzzard. Sail to the east, sail to the west; Sail to the one that I love best. Flap your wings before you fly out of sight, That I may see my sweetheart before Saturday night".........................Blue Grass

592. Count the number of turkey-buzzards that you see flying. The number will be the number of years that you will live.

593. If you find twin peaches, apples, cucumbers, or the like, you will be married soon.. Southern Kentucky

594. If you find a twin berry or fruit, sleep with it under your pillow. The one that you dream of will be your husband or wife.........Western Kentucky

595. If you can tie the tying-vine into a lover's knot, you can get any one that you desire as married partner...............................Mountains

596. If you raise an umbrella in the house, you will not be married.

597. If a girl wears a wasp nest in her clothing, her lover will love her more deeply............Blue Grass

598. Go to a deserted house, drop a ball of yarn, and wind it as you walk around the house, saying, "I wind, who holds?" Before you have completed the circuit, something or someone will catch the yarn and in some way disclose your future mate........................................Mountains

599. If you spill water while you are drinking, your sweetheart is thinking of you. .North-eastern Kentucky

600. Dip a stick into water. It it drops fewer than five drops of water, your sweetheart loves you..........................................Mountains

601. If you put your finger into a saucer of clean water, you will marry a young man; into an empty saucer, you will be an old maid; into a saucer of soapy water, you will marry a widower......Mountains

602. Sleep on wedding cake; the person dreamed of is your destined mate.

603. If you sleep on a piece of wedding cake three nights and dream of the same person, you will marry him.

604. Sleep on a piece of wedding cake. Have six names and the word "stranger" on seven slips of paper. Take one out each morning. The one left shows your fortune.

605. If you wear a wedding veil in a play, you will never be married.

606. If a bride wears something of yours, you will have a proposal within a year.

607. If a sister of the bride wears the bride's garter, she will be the next one to be married in that family.

608. If you look into a well at midnight, you will see your future husband.

609. Put your handkerchief on the growing wheat at night. In the morning arise and get the handkerchief before sunrise. On it you will find the initials of the man or woman that you will marry... ...........................Southern Kentucky

610. If you are caught in a whirlwind, you will receive an invitation to a wedding.

611. When two people break a wish-bone between them, the one that gets the shorter piece will marry first, and the one that gets the longer one will obtain whatever wish he may have made.

612. When two people pull a breastbone of a chicken, the one getting the shorter piece will marry first, but the other will be rich.

613. When two people break a wish-bone of a chicken, the one that gets the shorter piece will marry first, and the one that gets the longer piece will have the better dinner.........................Blue Grass

614. A sprig of yarrow is a good love charm.

615. If you marry young, you will have trouble in the future.