1894, William Crooke, An Introduction to the Popular Religion and Folklore of Northern IndiaThe letter from a Raja is spotted with gold-leaf as a preservative, partly to divert the glance of fascination and partly because gold is a scarer of demons...
2007, January 21, , Letters, However, if a child tells a parent that someone “scares me,†it certainly doesn’t seem prudent to tell the alleged scarer what the child has confided to the parent, even if that parent “trusts†the baby sitter at this point.
