Crook your little finger when holding a cup while drinking and you will be an old maid. Drop apples into a tub of water at a Halloween party and the one who succeeds in biting an apple will be certain to marry. Each nail in a horseshoe that you find represents one year before your marriage. Falling up the steps means that you will not marry that year. Finding a red ear of corn foretells your wedding within a year.
Girls have the privilege of proposing during leap year.
If I am to marry far, Let me hear a cow low. If I am to single die, Let me hear a knocking by. If your friends do not know you as you come down the street, it is an omen of your approaching marriage. If a bird that has entered the house flies towards the west, someone in that house is going to be married. If a girl drops a cup and it breaks, she will be an old maid.