ANIMAL, buying and selling

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

ANIMAL, buying and selling
1486 SPRENGER & KRAMER Malleus Maleficarum (tr. Summers, 223) A certain honest man was bargaining with a woman, and would not come to terms with her about the price of some article; so she angrily called after him, ‘You will soon wish you had agreed’ … Then he, not unreasonably being angry with her, looked over...

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