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IF YOU DROP SILVERWARE, IT MEANS COMPANY IS COMING.
DROPPING A KNIFE OR FORK MEANS A MAN IS COMING,
A SPOON MEANS A WOMAN IS COMING.

Submitter comment: THE INFORMANT IS AN AMERICAN GIRL WHO LEARNED
THIS BELIEF FROM HER IRISH GRANDMOTHER ABOUT
TWENTY YEARS AGO.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; BIRMINGHAM

Subject headings:

Observation
BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank

Date learned: 11-17-1963 ; 00-00-1943

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