AFTERBIRTH, burning: divination

From: A Dictionary of Superstitions | Date: 1996| Author: IONA OPIE and MOIRA TATEM | Copyright information

AFTERBIRTH, burning: divination
1686–7 AUBREY Remaines (1881, 73) Midwives woemen have some custome, of saving the after-birth, or burning of it, in relation to the long or short life of the new-borne Babe.

1940 Folklore 118.

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