BABY protected by ‘something old’

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

BABY protected by ‘something old’
1659 LOVELACE Lucasta 28 ‘To a Lady with Child that ask'd an Old Shirt’. Since to Ladies 't hath a Custome been Linnen to send, that travail and lye in; To the nine Sempstresses … I su'd … the jolli'st … Rent th' apron from her smock, and gave it me.

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