 | Gilbert White - 1822 - 380 Seiten
...its virtue for ever. A shrew-ash was made thus :* — Into thebody of the tree a deep hole was bored with an auger, and a poor devoted shrew-mouse was...the manor, or hundred. As to that on the Plestor, " The late vicar stubb'cl and burnt it,'' when he was way-warden, regardless of * For a similar practice,... | |
 | William Hone - 1828 - 514 Seiten
...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...in the manor or hundred. As to that on the plestor, the late vicar stubbed and burnt it, when he was waywarden, regardless of the remonstrances of the... | |
 | William Hone - 1828 - 468 Seiten
...of the tree a deep hole was bored with an auger, and a poor devoted shrew-mouse was thrust in alire, and plugged in, no doubt, with several quaint incantations...in the manor or hundred. As to that on the plestor, the late vicar stubbed and burnt it, when he was waywarden, regardless of the remonstrances о the... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1829 - 364 Seiten
...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...long since forgotten. As the ceremonies necessary for * They were supposed, also, to be particularly injurious to horses. " When a horse in the fields happened... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1832 - 354 Seiten
...its virtue forever. 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...in the manor or hundred. As to that on the Plestor, "The late vicar stubb'd and burnt it," when he was way-warden, regardless of the remonstrances of the... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1834 - 392 Seiten
...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...in the manor or hundred. As to that on the Plestor, The late vicar stubb'd and burnt it, when he was way-warden, regardless of the remonstrances of the... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1834 - 396 Seiten
...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 in alive, and plugged in, no tloubt, with several quaint incantations, long since forgotten. As the ceremonies necessary for such... | |
 | 1835 - 466 Seiten
...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...consecration are no longer understood, all succession is at end, and no such tree is known to subsist in the manor or hundred." This shrew-ash, according to a... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1837 - 678 Seiten
...its virtue for ever. A shrew-ash was made thus2: — Into the body of the tree a deep hole was bored with an auger, and a poor devoted shrew-mouse was...in the manor or hundred. As to that on the Plestor, « The late vicar stnbb'd and burn'd it," when he was way-warden, regardless of the remonstrances of... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1837 - 680 Seiten
...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...in the manor or hundred. As to that on the Plestor, " The late vicar gtubb'd and burn'd it," when he was way-warden, regardless of the remonstrances of... | |
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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. A shrew-ash was made thus : — Into the body of the tree a deep hole... 
