Note 91.1 — 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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Ploss, i. Weib, 504. Compare with this the Austrian superstition that if women come in while another is in labour they shall quickly take their aprons off and tie them round her, or they will be barren themselves. Grimm, Teut. Myth., 1806. That is to say, the aprons will, when restored to their owners, be a bond of connection between them and the child-bearing woman, so as to communicate to them her virtue.