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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. "
The Table Book - Page 439
by William Hone - 1828
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The Natural History of Selborne, Volume 1

Gilbert White - Natural history - 1822 - 380 pages
...cattle, will immediately relieve the pains which a beast suffers from the running of a shrew-mouseover the part affected : for it is supposed that a shrew-mouse...continually liable, our provident fore-fathers always kept a shrewash at hand, which, when once medicated, would maintain its virtue for ever. A shrew-ash was made...
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A Glossary of North Country Words, in Use: From an Original Manuscript, in ...

John Trotter Brockett - Dialect literature, English - 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...
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A glossary of north country words, in use. From an original manuscript, with ...

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...
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The Natural History of Selborne

Gilbert White - Natural history - 1829 - 364 pages
...cattle, will immediately relieve the pains which a beast suffers from the running of a shrew-mouse over the part affected :* for it is supposed that...continually liable, our provident forefathers always kept a shrewash at hand, which, when once medicated, would maintain its virtue for ever. A shrew-ash was made...
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A Glossary of North Country Words, in Use: With Their Etymology, and ...

John Trotter Brockett - English language - 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...
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The Natural History of Selborne

Gilbert White - Natural history - 1832 - 354 pages
...supposed, also, to be particularly injurious to hors«s. " When a horse in the fields happened to be shrew-mouse is of so baneful and deleterious a nature,...continually liable, our provident forefathers always kept a shrew-ash at hand, which, when once medicated, would maintain its virtue forever. A shrew-ash was made...
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The Natural History of Selbourne: With Observations on Various Parts of ...

Gilbert White - Natural history - 1834 - 392 pages
...cattle, will immediately relieve the pains which a beast suffers from the running of a shrew-mouse over the part affected : for it is supposed that a...continually liable, our provident forefathers always kept a shrew-ash at hand, which, when once medicated, would maintain its virtue for ever. A shrew-ash was...
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 25

1835 - 466 pages
...cattle, will immediately relieve the pains which a beast suffers from the running of a shrew-mouse over the part affected : for it is supposed that a shrew-mouse is of so banefid and deleterious a nature, that wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow, or sheep,...
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Deutsche Mythologie

Jacob Grimm - Germanic peoples - 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...
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The Natural History of Selborne: With Observations on Various Parts of ...

Gilbert White - Natural history - 1836 - 440 pages
...cattle, will immediately relieve the pains which a beast suffers from the running of a shrew-mouse over the part affected : for it is supposed that a...deleterious a nature, that wherever it creeps over a beastv be it horse, cow, or sheep, the suffering animal is afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened...
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