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> Yorkshire dairymaids dropped them into cream to counteract witchcraft that prevented it from turning to butter.

Given silver's anti-microbial properties, could this have actually helped beyond just the superstition?

Or maybe catalytic behavior, like beating eggs in a copper bowl.
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There was a crooked man and he went a crooked mile,

He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile;

He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse,

And they all liv'd together in a little crooked house.

(nursery rhyme)

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