 | Jacob Ludwig C. [single works] Grimm - 1854 - 676 стор.
...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 стор.
...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 стор.
...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 стор.
...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...tree is known to subsist in the manor, or hundred. As to that on the Plestor, for " The late vicar stubb'd and burnt it," when he was way-warden, regardless... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1863 - 832 стор.
...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.... | |
 | William Houghton - 1869 - 198 стор.
...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." It is marvellous how people could ever have believed such stuff; but equal absurdities are still accepted... | |
 | 1899 - 478 стор.
...ash at hand, which, when once medicated, would retain its virtue for ever. A shrew ash is 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 since... | |
 | Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club - 1869 - 402 стор.
...says :— " Into the body of the tree a 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 since forgotten." The Cwm-ffrwdor joins lower down the " Cwm-nant-ddu," on the valley of the black stream, and the brooks... | |
 | Gilbert White, Edward Jesse - 1870 - 532 стор.
...hand, which, when once medicated, would maintain its virtue for ever. A shrew-ash was made thus :f — Into the body of the tree a deep hole was bored with...alive, and plugged in, no doubt, with several quaint incantatious, long since forgotten. As the ceremonies necessary for such a consecration are no longer... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1870 - 564 стор.
...which, when once medicated, retained its virtue for ever. A shrew-ash was made thus : into the body a hole was bored with an auger, and a poor devoted shrew-mouse...several quaint incantations long since forgotten." That this banter of good old Gilbert White's was not undeserved, may be fully proved from many an ancient... | |
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... afflicted with cruel 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... 
