 | Jacob Grimm - 1883 - 462 páginas
...hand, which, when once medicated, would maintain its virtue for ever. A shrew-ash was made thus : J into the body of the tree a deep hole was bored with...longer understood, all succession is at an end, and no such tree is known to subsist in the manor or hundred. As to that on the area, the late vicar stubbed... | |
 | Jacob Ludwig C. [single works] Grimm - 1883 - 458 páginas
...hand, which, when once medicated, would maintain its virtue for ever. A shrew-ash was made thus : l into the body of the tree a deep hole was bored with...longer understood, all succession is at an end, and no such tree is known to subsist in the manor or hundred. As to that on the area, the late vicar stubbed... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1883 - 554 páginas
...hand, which, when once medicated, would maintain its virtue for ever. A shrew-ash was made thus : ' — Into the body of the tree a deep hole was bored with...an auger, and a poor devoted shrew-mouse was thrust iu alive, and plugged in, no doubt, with several quaint incantations long since forgotton. As the ceremonies... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1884 - 604 páginas
...forefathers always kept a shrew-ash at hand, which, when once medicated, would maintain its virtue for ever. A shrew-ash was made thus:1 — Into the...longer understood, all succession is at an end, and no such tree is known to subsist in the manor or hundred. 1 For a similar practice, see Plot's Staffordshire.... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1888 - 602 páginas
...forefathers always kept a shrew-ash at hand, which, when onc'e medicated, would maintain its virtue for ever. A shrew-ash was made thus:1 — Into the...longer understood, all succession is at an end, and no such tree is known to subsist in the manor or hundred. 1 For a similar practice, see Plot's Staffordshire... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1887 - 392 páginas
...hand, which, when once medicated, would maintain its virtue for ever. A shrew-ash was made thus :— Into the body of the tree a deep hole was bored with...longer understood, all succession is at an end, and no such tree is known to subsist in the manor or hundred. As to that on the Plestor, " The late Vicar... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1887 - 396 páginas
...hand, which, when once medicated, would maintain its virtue for ever. A shrew-ash was made thus : — Into the body of the tree a deep hole was bored with...longer understood, all succession is at an end, and no such tree is known to subsist in the manor or hundred. As to that on the Plestor, " The late Vicar... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1887 - 554 páginas
...hand, which, when once medicated, would maintain its virtue for ever. A shrew-ash was made thus : ' — Into the body of the tree a deep hole was bored with...longer understood, all succession is at an end, and no such tree is known to subsist in the manor, or hundred. As to that on the Plestor, for " The late vicar... | |
 | 1889 - 722 páginas
...at hand, which, when once medicated, would maintain its virtue for ever. A shrew-ash was made thus : Into the body of the tree a deep hole was bored with...several quaint incantations long since forgotten.' The country is 'so dull,' is it? They will not find it dull, but full of charm and very wonderful,... | |
 | 1890 - 920 páginas
...thus : into the body of the tree a deep hole was bored with an auger, and a poor devoted shrew mouse was thrust in alive, and plugged in, no doubt with...longer understood, all succession is at an end, and no such tree is known to subsist in the manor or hundred." It appears that similar powers for evil have... | |
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... anguish, and threatened with the loss of the use of the limb. Against this accident, to which they were continually liable, our provident forefathers always kept a shrew-ash at hand, which, when once medicated, would maintain its virtue for ever.... 
