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IF YOU DROP A COMB, STEP ON IT BEFORE YOU PICK IT
UP OR YOU WILL HAVE BAD LUCK.

Submitter comment: INFORMANT HEARD THIS AND SAW IT PRACTICED SINCE
SHE WAS YOUNG (1915). SHE DOES NOT BELIEVE IT
OR PRACTICE IT. HER SISTER STILL PRACTICES IT
TODAY, BUT INFORMANT DOES NOT THINK HER SISTER
BELIEVES IT, RATHER IT IS JUST HABIT.

Where learned: PENNSYLVANIA ; PITTSBURGH

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BELIEF -- Conversions Sharp objects

Date learned: 00-00-1915

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