 | Mrs. Loudon (Jane) - 1850 - 630 Seiten
...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...Shrew-mouse was thrust in alive, and plugged in." The cruelty of this, and many other practices of our ancestors, ought to make us thankful that we live... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1853 - 690 Seiten
...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...long since forgotten. As the ceremonies necessary for sui-h a consecration are no longer understood, all succession is at an end, and no such tree is known... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1853 - 1254 Seiten
...which, once medicated, retained its vittue forever: it was thus prepared : into the body of an ash a deep hole was bored with an auger, and a poor devoted shrew-mouse being thrust into it, the orifice was plugged up, probably with quaint incantations now forgotten.... | |
 | Jacob Grimm - 1854 - 1678 Seiten
...auger, and a poor devoted shretcmouse tctu thrusi M alive, aud plugged in, no doubt, with several quiint incantations long since forgotten. As the ceremonies...understood, all succession is at an end, and no such tree is knowa to subsist in the innnur or hundred, äs to that on the are*, Ihe late vicar stubbd and burnt... | |
 | Jacob Ludwig C. [single works] Grimm - 1854 - 676 Seiten
...at hand, which, when once medicated, would maintain its virtue for ever, a shrewash was made thus*): into the body of the tree a deep hole was bored with...and a poor devoted shrewmouse was thrust in alive, aud plugged in, no doubt, with several quaint incantations long since forgotten. As the ceremonies... | |
 | Jacob Grimm - 1854 - 650 Seiten
...at hand, which, when once medicated, would maintain its virtue for ever. a shrewash was made thus*): into the body of the tree a deep hole was bored with...auger, and a poor devoted shrewmouse was thrust in alwe, aud plugged in, no doubt, with several quaint incantations long since forgotten. As the ceremonies... | |
 | Edmund Fillingham King - 1860 - 376 Seiten
...medicated, would maintain its virtue for ever. A shrew -ash was made potent thus : — Into the body of a tree a deep hole was bored with an auger, and a poor...devoted shrew-mouse was thrust in alive, and plugged in, ne doubt with several quaint incantations, long since forgotten. The shrewash in Richmond Park is,... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1862 - 456 Seiten
...hand, which, when once medicated, would maintain its virtue for ever. A shrewash was made thus :* — Into the body of the tree a deep hole was bored with...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 stubb'd and burnt... | |
 | Walter Keating Kelly - 1863 - 328 Seiten
...which, when once medicated, would maintain its virtue for ever. A shrewash was made thus : Into the body a deep hole was bored with an auger, and a poor devoted...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 and burned it,' when... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1863 - 832 Seiten
...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 in alive, and plugged in, no doubt with several quaint incantations long forgotten.... | |
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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.... 
