Vulgar words in The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought - Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among - Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the - Civilization of To-Day (Page 1)
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Rather different, however, is the idea called up by the corresponding Middle Low German _modersone_, which means "bastard, illegitimate child."
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), he makes the Bastard speak of "your dear Mother-England," --but this is not quite "mother-land."
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Curiously reminiscent of the same train of ideas which has given to the _moderson_ of Low German the signification of "bastard," is our own equivalent term "natural son."
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If you eat no beans on Christmas Eve, you will become an ass.
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In Ireland the following folk-beliefs obtain regarding the ass and the cow:-- "Joseph and Mary fled into Egypt with the infant Jesus, on an ass.
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This same ass returned to Nazareth seven years later with them on its back, travelling in the night, since which time it has been the wisest of all animals; it was made sure-footed for Christ to ride on his triumphal entry into Jerusalem, and it remains the most sure-footed of all beasts.
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[No mother bears a bastard.]--_German_.
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