Note 27.2 — 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.
Reading edition
Thorpe, Yule-tide Stories, 438, from Müllenhoff. It is a German superstition that if a woman lose her garter in the street her husband or lover is untrue. Grimm, Teut. Myth., 1782, 1824. To lose the wedding-ring is a presage of death. Ibid., 1808.