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In my experience the temperature generally rises a bit after a big snowfall, but that wasn’t the case today in Brooklyn.  As my own nipples puckered up outside this morning, I thought about the poor witches in the world, whose nipples supposedly are always cold.  It turns out (per Wikipedia) that the saying “Colder than a witch’s titty” has a long history.  Here’s a snippet of the article:

“According to witch-hunters during the height of the witch trials (c. 1645), the witches’ mark (also called a witches’ teat) indicated that an individual was a witch. The witches’ mark, witches’ teat, and the devil’s mark are all terms applied to essentially the same mark…. The “witches’ teat” has been adapted to mean something of a cold or foreboding nature. A common function of the word as slang is used as a representation of cold temperatures. An example of this is: “It’s colder than a witches’ teat out here!” or “Teats, it’s cold!”“