1894 Brewer’s / M / Magic Garters
Made of the strips of a young hare’s skin saturated with motherwort. Those who wear these garters excel in speed.
“Were it not for my magic garters …
I should not continue the business long.”
Longfellow: The Golden Legend.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.