AFTERBIRTH, burning: divination
1686 – 7 AUBREY Remaines (1881, 73) Midwives woemen have some custome, of saving the after-birth, or burning of it, in relation to the long or short life of the new-borne Babe.

1940 Folklore 118. In September 1936 I delivered a Mrs J., High Wycombe [Bucks.] As I was clearing up … the ...