 | Samuel Carter Hall, Mrs. S. C. Hall - 1877 - 480 pages
...rising ground. that wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow, or sheep, the suffering animal is afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with the loss of the use of the limb. Against this evil, to which they were continually liable, our provident forefathers always kept a shrew-ash at hand,... | |
 | Robert Armitage Sterndale - 1877 - 488 pages
...a nature, that whenever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow, or sheep, the suffering animal is afflicted with cruel anguish and threatened with the loss of the use of the limb ; " and in Brand's " Popular Antiquities " you will also find an account of the barbarous ceremonies... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1880 - 554 pages
...a nature, that wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow, or sheep, the suffering animal is afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with...once medicated, would maintain its virtue for ever. A shrew* " When a horse in the fields happened to be suddenly seized with anything like a numbness in... | |
 | Jacob Ludwig C. [single works] Grimm - 1883 - 458 pages
...a nature, that wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow or sheep, the suffering animal is afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with...maintain its virtue for ever. A shrew-ash was made thus : l into the body of the tree a deep hole was bored with an auger, and a poor devoted shrewmouse was... | |
 | Jacob Grimm - 1883 - 462 pages
...a nature, that wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow or sheep, the suffering animal is afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with...maintain its virtue for ever. A shrew-ash was made thus : J into the body of the tree a deep hole was bored with an auger, and a poor devoted shrewmouse was... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1883 - 554 pages
...a nature, that wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow, or sheep, the suffering animal is afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with...of the limb. Against this accident, to which they are continually liable, our provident forefathers always kept a shrew -ash at hand, which, when once... | |
 | 1882 - 202 pages
...a nature, that wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow, or sheep, the suffering animal is afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with the loss of the use of the limb."t Hence malicious persons sometimes expressed a wish that it might injure their enemies, which... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1884 - 604 pages
...deleterious a nature that wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow, or sheep, the suSering animal is afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with...maintain its virtue for ever. A shrew-ash was made thus:1 — Into the body of the tree a deep hole was bored with an auger, and a poor devoted shrew-mouse... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1888 - 602 pages
...deleterious a nature that wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow, or sheep, the suSering animal is afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with...maintain its virtue for ever. A shrew-ash was made thus:1 — Into the body of the tree a deep hole was bored with an auger, and a poor devoted shrew-mouse... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1887 - 554 pages
...a nature, that wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow, or sheep, the suffering animal is afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with...of the limb. Against this accident, to which they are continually liable, our provident forefathers always kept a shrew -ash at hand, which, when once... | |
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For it is supposed that a shrewmouse is of so baneful and deleterious a nature, that wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow or sheep, the suffering animal is afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with the loss of the use of the limb. 
