 | Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society - 1892 - 552 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...practised it before their conversion to Christianity." The letter is dated January 8th, 1776. A brief glance at the origin of this most curious custom will... | |
 | Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society - 1892 - 554 ページ
...ineffectual. Having occasion to enlarge my garden not long since, I cut down two or three such t1-ees, one of which did not grow together. We have several...practised it before their conversion to Christianity." The letter is dated January 8th, 1776. A brief glance at the origin of this most curious custom will... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1897 - 196 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... | |
 | John Brand, Henry Ellis - 1900 - 886 ページ
...ineffectual. Harr; occasion to enlarge my garden not long since, I cut down two or three scctrees, one of which did not grow together. " We have several...before their conversion to Christianity. " At the south comer of the Plestor, or area, near the Church, there slocii about twenty years ago, a very old grotesque... | |
 | Harriet Georgiana Maria Manners-Sutton Murray-Aynsley - 1900 - 292 ページ
...gape, it was supposed that the method used would prove ineffectual." " We have," he goes on to say, " several persons now living in the village, who, in their childhood, were believed to have been healed by this superstitious ceremony, derived, perhaps, from our Saxon ancestors,... | |
 | William Gregory Wood-Martin - 1902 - 466 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 not grow together." In Folk-Lore of Plant*, Mr. TFT Dyer mentions that, " in Somersetshire, the superstition still lingers... | |
 | William Gregory Wood-Martin - 1902 - 490 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 not grow together." In Folk-Jstre of Plantx, Mr. TFT Dyer mentions that, " in Somersetshire, the superstition still lingers... | |
 | William Gregory Wood-Martin - 1902 - 480 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 not grow together." In Folk-IMre of Plantx, Mr. TPT Dyer mentions that, "in Somersetshire, the superstition still lingers... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1903 - 446 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...conversion to Christianity. At the south corner of tlie Plestor, or area, near the church, there stood, about twenty years ago, a very old grotesque hollow... | |
 | Maud Going - 1903 - 384 ページ
...where the cleft continued to "gape, the operation, it was supposed, would prove ineffectual. . . . We have several persons now living in the village...derived down, perhaps, from our Saxon ancestors, who practiced it before their conversion to Christianity." In some parts of rural England the ash plays... | |
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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... 
