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From: "Morley" <>
Subject: Re: Meaning of Caul
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 13:26:35 -0000
References: <789i2u$ukt$1@the-fly.zip.com.au>


Katherine Toman wrote in message <789i2u$ukt$1@the-fly.zip.com.au>...
>I am currently reading Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt. In the book it
>refers to 'the caul' some kind of hood that children are born with. But
what
>is it.
>
The membrane that can cover the head at birth, part of the amniotic sac, I
believe. There is an old superstition that anyone born with a caul will
never drown. Morley



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