 | Gilbert White - 1822 - 380 pages
...running of a shrew-mouseover the part affected : for it is supposed that a shrew-mouse is of so baneful and deleterious a nature, that wherever it creeps...fore-fathers always kept a shrewash at hand, which, when once medicated, would maintain its virtue for ever. A shrew-ash was made thus :* — Into thebody of... | |
 | John Trotter Brockett - 1825 - 298 pages
...venomous a nature that whenever it crept over a horse, cow, or sheep, the animal so touched became afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with the loss of the use of its limbs. To repel this imaginary evil, it was customary to close up the shrew alive in a hole bored... | |
 | John Trotter Brockett - 1825 - 296 pages
...venomous a nature that whenever it crept over a horse, cow, or sheep, the animal so touched became afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with the loss of the use of its limbs. To repel this imaginary evil, it was customary to close up the shrew alive in a hole bored... | |
 | William Hone - 1828 - 514 pages
...running of a threw-moute over the part affected : for it is supposed that a shrew-mouse is of so baneful and deleterious a nature, that wherever it creeps...continually liable, our provident forefathers always kept a jsAreiw-ash at hand ; which, when once medicated, would maintain its virtue for ever. A shrew-ash was... | |
 | William Hone - 1828 - 468 pages
...running of a shrew-mouse over the part affected : for it is supposed that a shrew-mouse is of so baneful and deleterious a nature, that wherever it creeps...and threatened with the loss of the use of the limb. Again« this accident, to which they were continually liable, our provident forefather! always kept... | |
 | John Trotter Brockett - 1829 - 368 pages
...venomous a nature that whenever it crept over a horse, cow, or sheep, the animal so touched became afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with the loss of the use of its limbs. To repel this imaginary evil, it was customary to close up the shrew alive in a hole bored... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1832 - 354 pages
...particularly injurious to hors«s. " When a horse in the fields happened to be shrew-mouse is of so baneful and deleterious a nature, that wherever it creeps...forefathers always 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... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1834 - 392 pages
...running of a shrew-mouse over the part affected : for it is supposed that a shrew-mouse is of so baneful and deleterious a nature, that wherever it creeps...forefathers always 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... | |
 | Jacob Grimm - 1835 - 934 pages
...part affected. for il la supposcd that a shrewmouse is u! so baneful and deletcrious a naturc, tliat wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow, or sheep, llie sufiering animal is afJlicled wilh cruel anguish , aud threatened with the lofs of the use of... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1836 - 440 pages
...that a shrew-mouse is of so baneful and deleterious a nature, that wherever it creeps over a beastv be it horse, cow, or sheep, the suffering animal is...forefathers always 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... | |
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... it is supposed that a shrew-mouse 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. 
