 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1822 - 380 pages
...:* — Into thebody 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...several quaint incantations long since forgotten. As the ceremonies necessary for such a consecration are no longer understood, all succession is at... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1828 - 514 pages
...: — 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...several quaint incantations long since forgotten. As the ceremonies necessary for such a consecration are no longer understood, all succession is at... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1828 - 468 pages
...of the tree a deep hole was bored with an auger, and a poor devoted shrew-mouse was thrust in alire, and plugged in, no doubt, with several quaint incantations long since forgotten. As the ceremonies necessary for such a consecration are no longer understood, all succession is at... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1832 - 354 pages
...:* — 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...several quaint incantations long since forgotten. As the ceremonies necessary for such a consecration are no longer understood, all succession is at... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1834 - 392 pages
...— 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...several quaint incantations, long since forgotten. As the ceremonies necessary for such a consecration are no longer understood, all succession is at... | |
 | 1835 - 466 pages
...:— 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...several quaint incantations long since forgotten. As the ceremonies necessary for such a consecration are no longer understood, all succession is at... | |
 | Thomas Bell - Cetacea - 1837 - 554 pages
...would maintain its virtue for ever. A Shrew-ash was made thus : — into the body of the tree a deep hole was bored with an auger, and a poor devoted Shrew...several quaint incantations long since forgotten." * Another method of cure was to make the person or animal pass through the arch of a bramble, both... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1837 - 678 pages
...thus2: — 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 several quaint incantations long since forgotten. As the ceremonies necessary for such a consecration are no longer understood, all succession is at... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1837 - 680 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 several quaint incantations long since forgotten. As the ceremonies necessary for such a consecration are no longer understood, all succession is at... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1842 - 538 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 several quaint incantations long since forgotten. A« the ceremonies necessary for such a consecration are no longer understood, all succession is at... | |
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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 several quaint incantations long since forgotten. 
