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June 24. ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST. MIDSUMMER DAY.—A peculiar method of marriage divination recorded for England, in a locality not specified, was that an unmarried woman fasting should set out a table on the eve of St. John with bread, cheese, and ale, and then sit down as if to eat, leaving the street door open. Her future husband would then enter, bow to her, fill a glass of ale, and retire, leaving it on the table.
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Calendar of Customs and Festivals. Nature 121, 1004 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/1211004a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/1211004a0