1486 SPRENGER & KRAMER Malleus Maleficarum (tr. Summers, 189–90) When witches wish to deprive a cow of milk they … beg a little of the milk or butter which comes from that cow, so that they may … bewitch the cow; therefore women should take care, when they are asked by persons suspected of this crime, not to give away the least thing to them … Women who, when they have been turning a churn … to no purpose, and if they suspect … some witch, procure … butter from that witch. Then they make that butter into three pieces and throw them into the churn, invoking the Holy Trinity … so all witchcraft is put to flight … The butter must be borrowed from the suspected witch.
1881 W. GREGOR North-East of Scotland 200. When a boat was leaving home for another fishing station, as during the herring season, some had the habit of borrowing an article of trifling value from a neighbour, but with the intention of not returning it. The luck of the fishing went along with the article; those who were aware of the fact refused to lend.
1898 Aberdeen Weekly Free Press 29 Oct. 3. It was believed in certain fishing villages that tackle stolen from a friend or neighbour brought better luck than that bought with money.
1900 s. HEWETT Nummits 58 [Devon] Fishermen … would never … lend anything from one boat to another.
1909 M. TREVELYAN Folk-Lore of Wales 210. If a thing is bewitched, burn it, and immediately afterwards the witch will come to borrow something of you. If you give what she asks, she will go free; if you refuse it, she will burn, and a mark will be on her body the next day.
1910 T. SHARPER KNOWLSON Superstitions 233. He who lends money at play [card play] will lose; he who borrows money at play will win. Cf. BRIDE'S CLOTHES: ‘something borrowed’.; FIRE not allowed out of house.
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