70 Conception, Birth and Infancy in 



216 Cf. for a baby's hair, Notes and Queries, Ser. 6, VI (1882), 416. One must 

 burn discarded hair, for if toads find it, and take it into their hole, the careless 

 person will have a perpetual headache: Notes and Queries, Ser. 4, VII (1871), 

 91. 217 Petron. 104-105. 218 N.H. 28.28; Auson. Eel. 26. 219 R. M. 

 Cossar, "Usanze, riti e superstizioni del popolo di Montana nell' Istria", II folk- 

 lore italiano, IX (1934), 62; E. Canziani, op. cit. (see note 45), 228; F. Valla, 

 "Medicina e credenze popolari sarde", Archivio, XIV (1895), 43. 220 F. Bel- 

 lizzi, "Credenze e superstizioni pugliesi", Riv. d. trad. pop. ital., I (1893-1894), 

 459. 221 R. M. Cossar, loc. cit.; cf. Notes and Queries, Ser. 4, I (1868), 575. 

 222 C. Bottecchia, "Credenze popolari del bellunese", Riv. d. trad. pop. ital., 

 I (1893-1894), 557; G. M. Cossu, "Tradizioni, superstizioni e credenze sarde", 

 Riv. d. trad. pop. ital., I (1893-1894), 222. It is interesting to find this super- 

 stition in the United States.: E. M. Fogel, op. cit. (see note 24), 243, No. 1256. 



223 F. Valla, loc. cit. 22i E. Canziani, op. cit. (see note 45), 214. But 

 merely washing a baby's palm is said to make it light-fingered: Notes and 

 Queries, Ser. 3, XII (1867), 185. Cf. also C. J. S. Thompson, op. cit., 24-25; 

 F. D. Bergen, Current Superstitions Collected from the Oral Tradition of 

 English-Speaking Folk, 25, no. 55. 225 Z. Zanetti, La medicina, 142; Nonne e 

 bambini, 142; G. Pitre, Medicina, 103; cf. 0. Bruni, La nostra redenzione morale, 

 51: Venetian practice; Notes and Queries, Ser. 5, VIII (1887), 325. The 

 Pennsylvania German superstition prescribes a wait of a year before the first 

 haircut, lest the infant lose its hair, be a weakling, or die young: E. M. Fogel, 

 op. cit. (see note 24), 42, nos. 81-82; 43, no. 83. 226 E. Canziani, loc. cit. The 

 superstitions have reached England or, perhaps, risen there independently: Notes 

 and Queries, Ser. 1, VI (1852), 312; X (1854), 71; Ser. 2, XII (1861), 500; Ser. 4, 

 VI (1870), 130; 204; 376; Ser. 6, VI (1882)., 249; 416; Ser. 9, V (1900), 375; 

 500; Ser. 9, VI (1900), 93; 173; C. J. S. Thompson, op. cit. (see note 214), 24. 



227 Any strange-looking eye will be particularly open to suspicion. See Walton 

 B. McDaniel, "The Pupula Duplex and Other Tokens of an Evil Eye in the 

 Light of Ophthalmology", Classical Philology, XIII (1918), 335^46. 



228 C. T. Ramage, op. cit. (see note 20), 60-61; C. Pigorini-Beri, op. cit. 

 (see note 44), 35; A. Mancarella, "Superstizioni popolari pugliesi", 77 folklore 

 italiano, V (1930), 126-151. 



229 Cf., e.g., A. De Nino, op. cit. (see note 66), V, 3; Z. Zanetti, La medi- 

 cina, 142. 



230 Z. Zanetti, op. cit., 160 ; M. L. Wagner, "II malocchio e credenze affini in 

 Sardegna", Lares, II (1913), 133. Spitting away the evil effects of a compli- 

 ment is, of course, a farflung superstition: cf., e.g., Notes and Queries, Ser. 3, 

 XII (1867), 477. 



231 T. Trede, op. cit. (see note 209), II. 236; M. L. Wagner, op. cit., 133; 

 cf. G. E. Bideri, Usi e costumi del popolo napoletano, 87. 



232 S. Salomone-Marino, op. cit. (see note 50), 133. 



233 N.H. 28.39. 



234 Cat. 5. 11-13. 



235 Neither blessings nor property should be counted. As the Tuscan peasant 

 puts it: il suo bene non si numera: A. De Gubernatis, "Psicologia del linguag- 

 gio popolare", Rivista delle tradizioni popolari italiane, I, 153: II contadino 



