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BED-MAKING: turning mattress/changing sheets at ‘dangerous’ times
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BED-MAKING: turning mattress/changing sheets at ‘dangerous’ times
1851
N & Q
1st ser. IV 98.
It is very unlucky to turn a featherbed on a Sunday; my housemaid says she would not turn my bed on a Sunday on any account.
1852
N & Q
1st ser. VI 432 [Liverpool, Lancs.]
An attendant was making a bed occupied by the mother of a child born a few days previously. When she attempted to turn it over … the nurse energetically interfered, peremptorily forbidding her doing so till a month after the confinement, on the ground that it was decidedly unlucky.
1872
N & Q
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