witch's milk en · NOUN
Etymology
From the belief in European folklore that such milk was a source of nourishment for witches' familiars.
Meanings
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(uncountable) Milk secreted from the breasts of newborn babies.
Left alone, witch's milk disappears in about 20 days.
2005, Judith Lauwers, Anna Swisher, Counseling the Nursing Mother: A Lactation Consultant's Guide, Jones & Bartlett Learning, →ISBN, page 119:
Synonyms
Translations (11)
pl mleko czarownic (milk secreted from the breasts of newborn babies) · ja 鬼乳 (milk secreted from the breasts of newborn babies) · yue 巫乳 (milk secreted from the breasts of newborn babies) · nn heksemjølk (milk secreted from the breasts of newborn babies) · de Hexenmilch (milk secreted from the breasts of newborn babies) · da heksemælk (milk secreted from the breasts of newborn babies) · ja 奇乳 (milk secreted from the breasts of newborn babies) · ja 魔乳 (milk secreted from the breasts of newborn babies) · nl heksenmelk (milk secreted from the breasts of newborn babies) · nb heksemelk (milk secreted from the breasts of newborn babies) · sv häxmjölk (milk secreted from the breasts of newborn babies)