Folk-medicineFolk-lore Society, 1883 - Всего страниц: 228 |
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Стр. 136 - Himself best knows : but strangely-visited people, All swoln and ulcerous, pitiful to the eye, The mere despair of surgery, he cures ; Hanging a golden stamp about their necks, Put on with holy prayers : and, 'tis spoken, To the succeeding royalty he leaves The healing benediction.
Стр. 122 - People can't die, along the coast," said Mr. Peggotty, " except when the tide's pretty nigh out. They can't be born, unless it's pretty nigh in — not properly born, till flood. He's a going out with the tide. It's ebb at half-arter three, slack water half-an-hour. If he lives 'till it turns, he'll hold his own till past the flood, and go out with the next tide.
Стр. 194 - But to nobler sights Michael from Adam's eyes the film removed, Which that false fruit, that promised clearer sight, Had bred ; then purged with euphrasy and rue The visual nerve, for he had much to see, And from the well of life three drops instill'd.
Стр. 36 - Ringworm ! ringworm red ! Never mayest thou either spread or speed ; But aye grow less and less, And die away among the ase," fashes,) at the same time, throwing the little ashes held between the forefinger and thumb into the fire.
Стр. 54 - I took, early in the morning, a good dose of elixir, and hung three spiders about my neck ; and they drove my ague away. Deo gratias.
Стр. 174 - ... of Scotland, at the birth of an infant, the nurse takes a green stick of ash, one end of which she puts into the fire, and while it is burning, receives in a spoon the sap that oozes from the other, which she administers to the child as its first food.
Стр. 199 - Thus it becomes manifest that setting out with the wandering double which the dream suggests; passing to the double that goes away at death; advancing from this ghost, at first supposed to have but a transitory second life, to ghosts which exist permanently and therefore accumulate; the primitive man is led gradually to people surrounding space with supernatural beings which inevitably become in his mind causal agents for everything unfamiliar.
Стр. 95 - To heal the King or Queen's Evil, or any other Soreness in the Throat, first touch the place with the hand of one that died an untimely death : otherwise let a Virgin fasting lay her hand on the sore and say : Apollo denyeth that the Heat of the Plague can increase where a naked Virgin quencheth it : and spet three times upon it.
Стр. 44 - Man, as yet in a low intellectual condition, having come to associate in thought those things which he found by experience to be connected in fact, proceeded erroneously to invert this action, and to conclude that association in thought must involve similar connexion in reality.
Стр. 191 - That it is a tree of the sun, and under the celestial sign Leo, and resisteth witchcraft very potently, as also all the evils old Satan can do to the body of man, and they are not a few ; for it is the speech of one, and I am mistaken if it .were not Mizaldus, that neither witch nor devil, thunder nor lightning, will hurt a man in a place where a baytree is.