In the same western district, to find the body of someone drowned in a river, people sent an apple floating down from above the spot where the body was thought to lie. The apple was expected to stop over the place where the corpse lay. The gentleman who saw it done would not say whether it worked.
The Apple on the Stream
Printed under 7 September
Lore and belief
An apple was sent down the stream from above the spot where the body was supposed to be
From Chambers's Book of Days, vol. 2, p. 324. Read the original
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