 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1822 - 380 pages
...when once medicated, would maintain its virtue for ever. A shrew-ash was made thus :* — Into thebody of the tree a deep hole was bored with an auger, and...several quaint incantations long since forgotten. As the ceremonies necessary for such a consecration are no longer understood, all succession is at... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1828 - 514 pages
...a jsAreiw-ash 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...several quaint incantations long since forgotten. As the ceremonies necessary for such a consecration are no longer understood, all succession is at... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1828 - 468 pages
...a shrew-as\\ at hand ; whicb, when once medicated, would maintain its virtue for ever. A shrew-ash was made thus :—Into the body of the tree a deep...auger, and a poor devoted shrew-mouse was thrust in alire, and plugged in, no doubt, with several quaint incantations long since forgotten. As the ceremonies... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1829 - 364 pages
...kept a shrewash 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...several quaint incantations long since forgotten. As the ceremonies necessary for * They were supposed, also, to be particularly injurious to horses.... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1832 - 354 pages
...kept a shrew-ash at hand, which, when once medicated, would maintain its virtue forever. A shrew-ash was made thus :* — Into the body of the tree a deep...several quaint incantations long since forgotten. As the ceremonies necessary for such a consecration are no longer understood, all succession is at... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1834 - 392 pages
...kept a shrew-ash 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...several quaint incantations, long since forgotten. As the ceremonies necessary for such a consecration are no longer understood, all succession is at... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1834 - 396 pages
...kept a shrew-ash 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...shrew-mouse was thrust in alive, and plugged in, no tloubt, with several quaint incantations, long since forgotten. As the ceremonies necessary for such... | |
 | 1835 - 466 pages
...kept a shrew-ash at hand, which, when ouce medicated, would maintain its virtue for ever. A shrew-ash was made thus :— Into the body of the tree a deep...several quaint incantations long since forgotten. As the ceremonies necessary for such a consecration are no longer understood, all succession is at... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1837 - 680 pages
...kept a shrew-ash 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...several quaint incantations long since forgotten. As the ceremonies necessary for such a consecration are no longer understood, all succession is at... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1837 - 678 pages
...hand, which, when once medicated, would maintain its virtue for ever. A shrew-ash was made thus2: — Into the body of the tree a deep hole was bored with...several quaint incantations long since forgotten. As the ceremonies necessary for such a consecration are no longer understood, all succession is at... | |
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... 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 its virtue for... 
