 | Gilbert White - 1883 - 554 ページ
...childhood, were supposed to be healed by this superstition ceremony, derived down perhaps from our Saxoii ancestors, who practised it before their conversion to Christianity. At the south corner of the Plextor, or area, near the church, their stood, about twenty years ago, a very old grotesque hollow... | |
 | William George Black - 1883 - 250 ページ
...village who, in their childhood, were supposed to be healed by this superstitious ceremony, derived perhaps from our Saxon ancestors, who practised it before their conversion to Christianity." * At Spitchwich, near Ashburton, in more recent days, a gamekeeper, when some remark was made on the peculiarity... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1884 - 604 ページ
...operation, it was supposed, would prove ineffectual. Having occasion to enlarge my garden not long since, I cut down two or three such trees, one of which did...ancestors, who practised it before their conversion to Christianity.1 1 " Much nearer to the metropolis than Selborne," says Mr. Bennett, in a note to this... | |
 | Hilderic Friend - 1884 - 370 ページ
...cured ; but when the cleft continued to gape, the operation, it was supposed, would prove ineffectual. We have several persons now living in the village...childhood, were supposed to be healed by this superstitious ceremony."4 Such illustrations might be indefinitely multiplied. Much attention is given in some places... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1887 - 554 ページ
...operation, it was supposed, would prove ineffectual. Having occasion to enlarge my garden not long since, I cut down two or three such trees, one of which did...south corner of the Plestor, or area, near the church, their stood, about twenty years ago, a very old grotesque hollow pollard-ash, which for ages had been... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1887 - 396 ページ
...operation, it was supposed, would prove ineffectual. Having occasion to enlarge my garden not long since, I cut down two or three such trees, one of which did...it before their conversion to Christianity. At the fourth corner of the Plestor, or area, near the church, there stood, about twenty years ago, a very... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1887 - 392 ページ
...operation, it was supposed, would prove ineffectual. Having occasion to enlarge my garden not long since, I cut down two or three such trees, one of which did...it before their conversion to Christianity. At the fourth corner of the Plestor, or area, near the church, there stood, about twenty years ago, a very... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1888 - 602 ページ
...operation, it was supposed, would prove ineffectual. Having occasion to enlarge my garden not long since, I cut down two or three such trees, one of which did...ancestors, who practised it before their conversion to Christianity.1 1 "Much nearer to the metropolis than Selborne," says Mr. Bennett, in a note to this... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1891 - 536 ページ
...operation, it was supposed, would prove ineffectual. Having occasion to enlarge my garden not long since, I cut down two or three such trees, one of which did...it before their conversion to Christianity. At the fourth corner of the Plestor, or area, near the church, there stood, about twenty years ago, a very... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1891 - 840 ページ
...operation, it was supposed, would prove ineffectual. Having occasion to enlarge my garden not long since, I cut down two or three such trees, one of which did...ancestors, who practised it before their conversion to Christianity.1 1 " Much nearer to the metropolis than Selborne," says Mr. Bennett. in a note to this... | |
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... ineffectual. Having occasion to enlarge my garden not long since, I cut down two or three such trees, one of which did not grow together. We have several persons now living in the village, who, in their childhood, were supposed to be healed by this... 
