BABY protected by clothes of opposite sex

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

BABY protected by clothes of opposite sex
1898 CLODD Tom Tit Tot 131. To this day, the peasants of Achill Island (on the north-west coast of Ireland) dress their boys as girls till they are about fourteen years old to deceive the boy-seeking devil.

1910 N & Q 11th ser. II 65.

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