 | 1915 - 370 стор.
...Magnfisson, p. 183, Vefjur-Slitrur. 89 cated, would maintain its virtue forever, a shrewash was made thus: into the body of the tree a deep hole was bored with an augur, and a poor devoted shrewmouse was thrust in alive, and plugged in." (Gil. White: the natural... | |
 | Richard Hayman - 2003 - 300 стор.
...animals from a shrew running over their bodies. A shrew ash could be consecrated in the following way: Into the body of the tree a deep hole was bored with...succession is at an end, and no such tree is known to exist in the manor.21 Robert Plot gave similar account of the oaks, elms and ashes of Staffordshire.... | |
 | 1846 - 972 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...tree is known to subsist in the manor or hundred. " As to that on the plestor — • The late vie« itubb'd and burn'd it,' when he was way-warden,... | |
 | 1866 - 1024 стор.
...Egyptian, this foreign name appeared mysterious, and was only made use * A shrew-ash was thus made : into the body of the tree a deep hole was bored with...several quaint incantations, long since forgotten. White's Selborne, letter xxviii. ; and also Plot's Staffordshire. h Jeremiah, xliv. 17. 1 "Joh," in... | |
 | 1843 - 522 стор.
...at hand, which, when once medicated, would keep 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." This shrew-ash oa the Plestor was destroyed by orders of the clergyman. '• The laie vicar stubbVl... | |
 | Indiana Horticultural Society - 1892 - 256 стор.
...thus: Into the body of a tree a deep hole was bored with an augur, and a poor, devoted shrew mouse was thrust in alive, and plugged in, no doubt with several quaint incantations long since forgotten. The superstitions which are gradually disappearing in England, appear never to have obtained a footing... | |
 | 1914 - 1034 стор.
.... *• jir a -.-• -jr •/ t cated, would maintain its virtue forever, a shrewash was made thus: into the body of the tree a deep hole was bored with an augur, and a poor devoted shrewmouse was thrust in alive, and plugged in." (Gil. White: the natural... | |
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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... 
