48. Rock the cradle empty,
Have children a plenty,
Rock the chair empty,
Have sickness a plenty.
Nashua, N. H.
49. To rock the cradle when the baby is not in it will kill it.
New York.
50. If the empty cradle be rocked, the baby will have the colic.
New York and Ohio.
51. The first time a baby is taken visiting, if it is laid on a married couple’s bed there will be a baby for that couple.
Salem, Mass.
52. The mother who gives away all the clothes of her dead baby will eventually be comforted by the coming of another child.
53. However many children a woman may have, the last will be of the same gender as the first, and they will look alike.