How a raunchy love charm became an innocent nursery rhyme

The 17th-century English antiquarian John Aubrey recorded a love charm called moulding cockle bread. A young woman would climb onto a table, lift her skirts, and, in Aubrey's words, "wabble to and fro with the Buttocks as if they were kneading of Dough with their Arses." — Read the rest

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