ID: 1296
Date: 1998
Title: One for a wish
Gender: Female 
Classification: Half belief 
Rhyme: 

One for a wish,
Two for a kiss,
Three for a disappointment.
(Said in relation to sneezes)

(Christchurch, 1998)

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Background Info: Variation in "Play and Folklore", Issue 7, 1984:4:

One for sorrow,
Two for joy, 
Three for disappointment,
Four to meet your boy,
Five a letter,
Six something better,
Seven a miss,
Eight a kiss,
Nine a carriage, 
Ten a marriage.

(Australia, 1943)

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Keywords: half belief 
Location: Christchurch 
Group size: 2 
Incidence: 1