"If you kill a lizard in the spring the spring will go dry" was also in "Virginia Folk Lore" in the Raleigh, North Carolina _Morning Post_, 11/16/1899, and in similar or identical articles in the Hagerstown, Maryland _Daily Mail_, 11/18/1899, the Somerset, Pennsylvania _Herald_, 12/6/1899, the Freeport, Illinois _Journal Standard_, 2/2/1900, and the Ironwood, Michigan _News Record_, 2/17/1900.