 | John Brand - 1842 - 306 pages
...virtue for ever. A threw-ash was made thus [for a similar practice see Plott's " Staffordshire''] : 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,'... | |
 | 1842 - 524 pages
...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...succession is at an end, and no such tree is known to subsist in the manor or hundred. As to that on the Pleslor — " The 1 HP iic.ir itubb'd and burnt... | |
 | 1842 - 538 pages
...hand, which, •when once medicated, would maintain its virtue for ever. Л shrew-aih was made thus : into the body of the tree a deep hole was bored with...several quaint incantations long since forgotten. A« the ceremonies necessary for such a consecration are no longer understood, all succession is at... | |
 | John Brand - 1842 - 312 pages
...ancestors, who practised it hefore their conversion to Christianity. of the tree a deep hole was hored with an auger, and a poor devoted shrew-mouse was thrust in alive, and plugged in, no douht, with several quaint incantations long since forgotten. As the ceremonies necessary for such... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1843 - 424 pages
...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...such a consecration are no longer understood, all succes* For a similar practice, see PLOT'S Staffordshire. sion is at an end, and no such tree is known... | |
 | Jacob Grimm - 1844 - 650 pages
...hand, which, when once medicated, would maintain its virtue for ever, a shreivash was made thus *): into the body of the tree a deep hole was bored with...an auger, and a poor devoted shrewmouse was thrust m alive, and plugged in, no doubt, with several quaint incantations Jong since forgotten. As the ceremonies... | |
 | Jacob Grimm - 1844 - 646 pages
...which, when once medicated, wonld maintain its virtue for ever. a shreivash was made thus'): into Ihe body of the tree a deep hole was bored with an auger, and a poor devoted shrewmouse was thrust in «lim-, and plugged in, no doubt, with several quaint incantalions .long since forgolten. As the ceremonies... | |
 | Jacob Grimm - 1844 - 640 pages
...thrust in alive, and plugged in, no doubl, wilh several quainl incanlalions _long since forgollen. As the ceremonies necessary for such a consecration are no longer understood, al succession is al an end, and no such Iree is known lo subsist in the manor or hundred, äs lo lhat... | |
 | John Brand, Henry Ellis - 1849 - 520 pages
...its virtue for ever. A shrew-ash was made thus [for a similar practice see Plott's Staffordshire] : Into the body of the tree a deep hole was bored with an auger, and a poor devoted shrew-mouse was tbrust in alive, and plugged in, no doubt, with several quaint incantations long since forgotten. As... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1850 - 458 pages
...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,"... | |
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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.... 
