The Magic of a Crooked Sixpence

[drdee]

https://daily.jstor.org/the-magic-of-a-crooked-sixpence/

[throwup238]

> 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?

[analog31 → throwup238]

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

[infertainment]

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)