 | Gilbert White - 1822 - 380 pages
...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,...virtue for ever. A shrew-ash was made thus :* — Into thebody of the tree a deep hole was bored with an auger, and a poor devoted shrew-mouse was thrust... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Hone - 1828 - 514 pages
...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,...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
...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. 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
...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,...which, when once medicated, would maintain its virtue forever. A shrew-ash was made thus :* — Into the body of the tree a deep hole was bored with an auger,... | |
 | 1835 - 466 pages
...banefid 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,...forefathers always kept a shrew-ash at hand, which, when ouce medicated, would maintain its virtue for ever. A shrew-ash was made thus :— Into the body of... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1837 - 678 pages
...that of the infant whose fate was thus supposed to have been mysteriously connected with it?— ETB afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with...maintain its virtue for ever. A shrew-ash was made thus2: — Into the body of the tree a deep hole was bored with an auger, and a poor devoted shrew-mouse... | |
 | John Brand - 1842 - 306 pages
...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,...once medicated, would maintain its virtue for ever. A threw-ash was made thus [for a similar practice see Plott's " Staffordshire''] : Into the body of the... | |
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For it is supposed that a shrewmouse 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. 
