| Jacob Grimm - 1877 - 564 Seiten
...hand, which, when once medicated, would maintain its virtue for ever, a shrewash was made thus l) : into the body of the tree a deep hole was bored with...no longer understood, all succession is at an end, ») Rob. Plot, natural history of Staffordshire Oxford 1686 p. 222: superstitious custom they have... | |
| Gilbert White - 1877 - 588 Seiten
...which, when once medicated, would maintain it's virtue for ever. A shrew-ash was made thus : m — Into the body of the tree a deep hole was bored with...shrew-mouse was thrust in alive, and plugged in, no m For a similar practice, see Plot's Staffordshire. doubt, with several quaint incantations long since... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall, Mrs. S. C. Hall - 1877 - 480 Seiten
...which, when once medicated, would maintain its virtues for ever. A shrew-ash wa> made potent thus : into the body of the tree a deep hole was bored with...and a poor devoted shrew-mouse was thrust in alive f and plugged in, no doubt with several quaint incantations long since forgotten. As the ceremonies... | |
| Gilbert White - 1879 - 510 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...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 stubb'd and burnt it,"... | |
| Margaret Ann Courtney - 1880 - 638 Seiten
...Shrew-ash [shreu-ash], sb. a 'medicated' ash-tree. 'A shrew-ash was made thus : — Into the body of a tree a deep hole was bored with an auger, and a poor...shrew-mouse was thrust in alive, and plugged in.' White's Nat. Hist, of Selborne, Letter xxviii. Shrievy [shreo-vi], adj. having threads withdrawn. —... | |
| Jacob Grimm - 1883 - 462 Seiten
...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...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 burnt it when he... | |
| Jacob Ludwig C. [single works] Grimm - 1883 - 458 Seiten
...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...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 burnt it when he... | |
| Gilbert White - 1883 - 554 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 iu alive, and plugged in, no doubt, with several quaint incantations long since forgotton. As the ceremonies... | |
| Gilbert White - 1884 - 604 Seiten
...hand, which, when once medicated, would maintain its virtue for ever. A shrew-ash was made thus:1 — 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. 1 For a similar practice, see Plot's Staffordshire. — G W. Dr. Plot... | |
| Gilbert White - 1887 - 396 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...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 stubb'd aud burnt it,"... | |
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