 ... 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 fore-fathers always kept a shrew-ash at hand, which, when once medicated, would maintain...  The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne - Page 297by Gilbert White - 1837 - 640 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Gilbert White - 1878 - 446 pages
...doubt, with several quaint incantations long since forgotten. As the ceremonies necessary for auch a consecration are no longer understood, all succession...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 of the remonstrances... | |
 | Margaret Ann Courtney - 1880 - 638 pages
...Shrew-ash [shreu-ash], sb. a 'medicated' ash-tree. 'A shrew-ash was made thus : — Into the body of a tree a deep hole was bored with an auger, and a poor...shrew-mouse was thrust in alive, and plugged in.' White's Nat. Hist, of Selborne, Letter xxviii. Shrievy [shreo-vi], adj. having threads withdrawn. —... | |
 | Jacob Grimm - 1883 - 462 pages
...hand, which, when once medicated, would maintain its virtue for ever. A shrew-ash was made thus : J into the body of the tree a deep hole was bored with...subsist in the manor or hundred. As to that on the area, the late vicar stubbed and burnt it when he was waywarden, regardless of the remonstrances of... | |
 | Jacob Ludwig C. [single works] Grimm - 1883 - 458 pages
...hand, which, when once medicated, would maintain its virtue for ever. A shrew-ash was made thus : l into the body of the tree a deep hole was bored with...subsist in the manor or hundred. As to that on the area, the late vicar stubbed and burnt it when he was waywardeu, regardless of the remonstrances of... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1884 - 604 pages
...hand, which, when once medicated, would maintain its virtue for ever. A shrew-ash was made thus:1 — Into the body of the tree a deep hole was bored with...tree is known to subsist in the manor or hundred. 1 For a similar practice, see Plot's Staffordshire. — G W. Dr. Plot relates that two workmen, on... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1887 - 554 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...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 of the remonstrances... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1888 - 602 pages
...hand, which, when onc'e medicated, would maintain its virtue for ever. A shrew-ash was made thus:1 — Into the body of the tree a deep hole was bored with...tree is known to subsist in the manor or hundred. 1 For a similar practice, see Plot's Staffordshire — G W. Dr. Plot relates that two workmen, on sawing... | |
 | 1889 - 722 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...several quaint incantations long since forgotten.' The country is 'so dull,' is it? They will not find it dull, but full of charm and very wonderful,... | |
 | 1890 - 920 pages
...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...tree is known to subsist in the manor or hundred." It appears that similar powers for evil have also been attributed, in parts at least of Great Britain,... | |
 | 1890 - 882 pages
...suffers from the running of a shrew-mouse over the part affected." A shrew-ash was made thus :—" Into the body of the tree, a deep hole was bored with...was thrust in alive, and plugged in, no doubt with certain incantations." Ruptured children are no longer passed through the cleft-stem of a pollard-ash,... | |
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