 The weed is the weedy fungi. The story, however, must be implied satire on the Cambuslang people generally, for the original Borgie's Well, which was blocked up some years ago, was the principal water supply of the district.— /W£ Medicine, Folk-Lore...  The Antiquary - Стр. 1021893Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | William George Black - 1883 - Страниц: 250
...at Cambuslang, near Glasgow, is credited with making mad those who drink from it ; according to the local rhyme — " A drink of the Borgie, a bite of the weed, Sets a' the Cam'slang folk wrang in the head." The weed is the weedy fungi. The story, however, must be an implied... | |
 | William George Black - 1883 - Страниц: 248
...according to the local rhyme — * Trial of Bartie Paterson, 18 Dec. 1607 ; Rec. Just.; Dalyell, p. 84. " A drink of the Borgie, a bite of the weed, Sets a" the Cam'slang folk wrang in the head." The weed is the weedy fungi. The story, however, must be an implied... | |
 | Richard Folkard - 1884 - Страниц: 660
...possesses the awful property of making all who drink of its waters mad. Hence the local saying : " A drink of the Borgie, a bite of the weed, Sets a' the Cam'slang folk \vrang in the head." Some few plants are repellent from the obnoxious smells which they... | |
 | Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener, Karl M. Dallenbach, Madison Bentley, Edwin Garrigues Boring, Margaret Floy Washburn - 1899 - Страниц: 634
...bathed in it would never behold ghosts.2 It is said of the Borgie Well, at Cambuslang, near Glasgow : " A drink of the Borgie, a bite of the weed, Sets a' the Cam'slang folk wrang in the head." On the 26th of June, every year, people flock to Saw Beach, Maine,... | |
 | 1893 - Страниц: 324
...was sacred in Popish times to the Virgin. — Merchant's House of Glasgow, 538. CAMBUSLANG : BORGIE WELL. The Borgie Well, at Cambuslang, near Glasgow,...ago, was the principal water supply of the district. — Folk Medicine, Folk-Lore Soc. Pub., p. 103. SHOTTS : ST. CATHARINE'S WELL. There is upon the great... | |
 | Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener, Karl M. Dallenbach, Madison Bentley, Edwin Garrigues Boring, Margaret Floy Washburn - 1899 - Страниц: 640
...bathed in it would never behold ghosts.2 It is said of the Borgie Well, at Cambuslang, near Glasgow : " A drink of the Borgie, a bite of the weed, Sets a' the Cam'slang folk wrang in the head." On the 26th of June, every year, people flock to Saw Beach, Maine,... | |
 | Frederick Elmer Bolton - 1899 - Страниц: 66
...bathed in it would never behold ghosts.2 It is said of the Borgie Well, at Cambuslang, near Glasgow : " A drink of the Borgie, a bite of the weed, Sets a' the Cam'slang folk wrang iu the head." On the 26th of June, every year, people flock to Saw Beach, Maine,... | |
 | Vincent Stuckey Lean - 1902 - Страниц: 546
...— N., I., v. 255.] Linlithgow for bells, Stirling for wells. Scott., Provincial Ant. of Scotland. A drink of the Borgie*, a bite of the weed, sets a' the Cam'slang folk wrang in the head. — Folkard, PI. Lore. * The Borgie Well at Cambuslang, 4 m. SE of... | |
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