Ed de Moel

Child Ballads - Additions and Corrections

29. The Boy and the Mantle

P. 270 b. If a girl takes a pot of boiling water off the fire, and the pot ceases to boil, this is a sign of lost modesty. Lammert, Volksmedizin und medizinischcr Aberglaube in Bayern, u.s.w., p. 146.

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