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'The young man shakes a tree three times', 1917. Superstition suggests if a man goes to the courtyard of his beloved and shakes a tree three times, repeating her maiden name, she will reciprocate his love. From "Hero Tales and Legends of the Serbian', by Woislav M. Petrovitch. [George G. Harrap & Company, London, 1917]