Note 87.4 — Chapter XV · THE COUVADE AND OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE STRENGTH OF THE BLOOD-TIE—CONCLUSION OF THE INQUIRY INTO THE THEORY OF THE LIFE-TOKEN.
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G. Sajaktzis, in iv. Zeits. des Vereins, 142. The Belgian prescription is to throw the babe’s first bathwater on the fire, never into the street or the ordinary sewer, for fear of spells. ii. Bull. de F.L., 144. Cf. the German superstition that to rock an empty cradle deprives the baby of rest. Grimm, Teut. Myth., 1778.