200. If you hold an apple in your armpit until it is warm and then eat it, your sweetheart will love you................................Southern Kentucky

201. If you can break an apple in two, you can get any one you choose for your life partner....................................North-eastern Kentucky

202. If you can break an apple in two after some one has named it, the one named loves you.... Blue Grass

203. An apple peeling that has been removed from the fruit without a break may be thrown over the left shoulder to form the initial of the person that one will marry.

204. Count apple-seeds with the use of this formula: "one, I love, two, I love; three, I love, I say; four, I love with all my heart; five, I cast away; six, he loves; seven, she loves; eight, both love; nine, he comes; ten, he tarries; eleven, he courts; twelve, they marry."

205. As many fresh apple seeds as stick to the forehead when pressed against it, so many days will it be until you see your sweetheart.........Mountains

206. Shoot an apple seed up; your sweetheart lives in the direction that it goes................Mountains

207. Name apple seeds and shoot them at the ceiling.

The one that hits the ceiling shows which one loves you best.

208. Put an apple seed on each eye. Name each seed.

The first that falls shows which one loves you the more.

209. Put five seeds on your face and name them. The first to fall off shows which one you will marry.

210. Place apple seeds on the grate. Name them. The ones that jump show which ones love you.

211. Count apple seeds to learn the number of children you will have.......................Mountains

212. If you can eat a crab apple without frowning, you can get the person you desire.........Mountains

213. If a girl's apron comes unpinned, her sweetheart has been taken.

214. If a girl's apron becomes unfastened and drops off, her lover is thinking of her.

215. If your apron slips off, your sweetheart is talking about you.

216. Make a string of beans and throw it down. The initial that it forms will be that of your future mate.

217. Name each corner bed post when you retire. The post that you have your hand on in the morning indicates the one you will marry.

218. Rub each post of the bed with the peeling of two lemons which you have carried all day. The person who offers you two lemons in your dream is your future partner in life.

219. Name the corners of the bed-room. The one that you look at first in the morning will show which person loves you best.

220. If you look under the bed, you will never marry.

221. Make up a bed with some one and do not speak while you are doing it. You will marry the first person with whom you shake hands afterward.

222. If you cannot make a bed well, you will marry a worthless man.

223. To eat beets is a sign that you are in love. Mountains

224. If you can touch with your finger a piece of soot (a so-called beauty spot) on your face, your sweetheart loves you.........North-eastern Kentucky

225. If you sleep with a Bible under your head three successive nights, you will dream whom you shall marry .............................Mountains

226. Before you go to bed at night, get the Bible, select a chapter that has as many verses as your sweetheart is years old, memorize the last one, repeat it two or three times, put the Bible under your pillow, and go to sleep. If you dream of the person, you will marry him or her, as the case may be... Blue Grass

227. If uninvited you take the last portion from a dish, you will not be married that year. Leave it for fairies.

228. If you take the last portion on a dish at the invitation of someone, you will have a handsome husband or wife.

229. If you take the last biscuit on the plate, a rich young widower or widow is your fate.

230. If you take the next to the last biscuit on the plate, you will never marry.

231. If you take the next to the last biscuit or the like, you will have a handsome husband.

232. If a bird flies into the house, the one who discovers it will be married before the year is out. His spouse will be from the region from which the bird came; for example, a robin represents a town person and a meadow lark a country person.

233. If you find a bird's nest empty, you will never marry.

If it has one egg in it, you will marry within one year; if two eggs, two years; et cetera. .Mountains

234. If you stick your finger, put three drops of blood on a piece of cloth and leave it by your bedside. Your future husband's or wife's initials will be written on it in the morning.....North-eastern Kentucky

235. If you burn your bread, your sweetheart is angry with you.

236. If a girl allows the bread to burn while baking it, she will never be married.

237. If a girl burns bread while baking it, her married life will be unhappy........ Southern Kentucky

238. If you kill the "British lady" (the red-winged blackbird), you will marry the next man you meet.... ..................................Mountains

239. If you can jump over a broom placed on the seats of two chairs, you will marry within a year........................................Mountains

240. If you step in front of a broom with which some one is sweeping, you will not be married that year.... .................................Mountains

241. If you cut first into a cake of butter, you will be an old maid....................Western Kentucky

242. If a butterfly settles on you, you will get a new sweetheart.........................Mountains

243. To learn your future husband's profession count your buttons, saying:

"Rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief, Doctor, merchant, lawyer, chief."

244. If you take the piece that is on top of the cake, you will never marry..............Central Kentucky