The Magic of a Crooked Sixpence

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15 pointsdrdee3 comments

> Yorkshire dairymaids dropped them into cream to counteract witchcraft that prevented it from turning to butter.

Given silver's anti-microbial properties, could this have actually helped beyond just the superstition?

Or maybe catalytic behavior, like beating eggs in a copper bowl.

There was a crooked man and he went a crooked mile,
He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile;
He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse,

And they all liv'd together in a little crooked house.

(nursery rhyme)

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