| Summary: | carey's chicken Carey, Carey Chick, Mother Carey's Chick (one version is that the term is an Anglicization of the Latin, Mater Cara, applied to the Virgin Mary, patroness of sailors; another is that Mother Carey was an old witch, good at raising the wind. Sailors would not harm her chickens for fear that her wrath would be roused.) [see 'Mother Carey's chickens'] PRINTED ITEM DNE-cit G.M. Story JAN 1970 JH 1/70 Used I and Sup Used I Not used carey's chick, carey chick, In clipped form carey, carey-church, PALL CAREY Checked by Cathy Wiseman on Mon 06 Apr 2015; Card marked DNE-cit, but not used.
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