ASHES, streaks in

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

ASHES, streaks in
1648 HERRICK Hesperides 146 ‘New-yeares gift’. Of Ash-heapes, in the which ye use Husbands and Wives by streakes to chuse.

1686–7 AUBREY Remaines (1881, 24) When I was a Boy in North Wilts...

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