Needles and Pinlore
Leave a loaf of freshly baked bread, stuck with many nails at a crossroads, and all who pass it will be cursed.
Stick pins in your sleeve on St. Agnes Eve and you will see the the lad you'll marry.
Like a pendulum; hold a needle on a thread above the head or belly of a pregnant woman; it was once believed, in simpler times, that a circle would indicate a girl and a linear swing would indicate a boy.
Stick a lemon full of needles as you curse the name of the one who has irritated you.
If two needles named for lovers are placed in a bowl of water float together, the lovers will stay together. But if they drift apart, so would their love.
Nine pins in a black bottle, with noxious substances and ill-wishes, buried in the garden of your foe, will hex them deeply.
A wax heart stuck with nine pins and roasted over a fire will burn the heart of he who you have named the heart for.
A dolly stuck with pins, lets the pain and evils in.
Nine needles stuck in the blade bone of a rabbit, which is then placed under the bed, will produce prophetic dreams.
Stick nine needles in a candle one by one from top to bottom and name each for a foe. As the candle burns down, so will those named.
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