The James T. Callow Folklore Archive

BIRTH OMEN

IF YOU WERE BORN WITH A VEIL OVER YOUR FACE, YOU
WERE SUPPOSED TO TAKE IT OFF AND SAVE IT. IT WAS
A LAYER OF SKIN LIKE A CASING - LIKE THE SKIN FROM
BOLOGNA. I WAS BORN WITH ONE BUT THEY BURNED MINE.
BUT MOM TOLD ME THAT IF THEY HAD KEPT IT, I WOULD BE PSYCHIC.

Submitter comment: LEARNED FROM HER MOTHER IN GLOUCESTER, OHIO.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT

Date learned: 05-11-1965