About 1860 the Alabama negresses believed that if any one stepped on their pickaninnies it would dwarf them.
Superstition #31
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 31.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.

About 1860 the Alabama negresses believed that if any one stepped on their pickaninnies it would dwarf them.
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 31.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.