 | Francis Grose - 1790 - 412 oldal
...of beef from a butcher's (hop, and rub your warts with it; then throw it down the neieflary-houfe, or bury it; and, as the beef rots, your warts will decay. THE chips or cuttings of a gibbet or gallows, on which one or more perfons have been executed or expofed,... | |
 | John Brand - 1810 - 510 oldal
...such Purpose from off the Scaffold on the beheading of one of the rebel Lords, 1746.—For Hearts, vye rub our Hands before the Moon, and commit any maculated Part to the Touch of the Dead.—Various are the superstitious Charms for driving away Rats, &c. Dr. Browne has left several... | |
 | Francis Grose - 1811 - 340 oldal
...of beef from a butcher's shop, and rub your warts with it; then throw it down the necessary house, or bury it; and, as the beef rots, your warts will decay. The chips or cuttings of a gibbet or gallows, on which one or more persons have been executed or exposed,... | |
 | Francis Grose - 1811 - 332 oldal
...of beef frotn a butcher's shop, and rub your warts with it; then throw it down the necessary house, or bury it; and, as the beef rots, your warts will decay. The chips or cuttings of a gibbet or gallows, on which one or more persons have been executed or exposed,... | |
 | 1844 - 624 oldal
...good. " Grose gives, for the removal of these excrescences, direction to ' steal a piece No. LXXXII. AA of beef from a butcher's shop, and rub your wart with...commit any maculated part to the touch of the dead." Sir Kenelm Digby says, ' One would think it were a folly that one should offer to wash his hands in... | |
 | 1844 - 622 oldal
...to take away warts from the hands, if it be often used.'" 80. of beef from a batcher's shop, and rob your wart with it, then throw it down the necessary-house, or bury it, and as the beef rots, your warU will decay.' Sir Thomas Browne says, ' for warts we rub our hands before the mooa, and commit... | |
 | Thomas Joseph Pettigrew - 1844 - 194 oldal
...ridiculous and disgusting. Grose gives, for the removal of these excrescences, direction to " steal a piece of beef from a butcher's shop, and rub your wart with it, then thntw it down the necessary-house, or bury it, and as the beef rots, your warts will decay." Sir Thomas... | |
 | Shuttleworth family - 1858 - 440 oldal
...piece of beef from a butcher's shop, rub your warts with it, and then throw the beef down the necessary or bury it, and as the beef rots your warts will decay. He also says that a dead man's hand is supposed to have the quality of dispelling tumours, such as... | |
 | Thomas Firminger Thiselton- Dyer - 1878 - 344 oldal
...the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen." THE MOON. " For warts," says Sir Thomas Browne, "we rub our hands before the moon and commit any maculated part to the touch of the dead." In Devonshire it is said that the hair and nails should always be cut during the waning of the moon,... | |
 | Thomas Firminger Thiselton- Dyer - 1880 - 340 oldal
...the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen." THE MOON. " For warts," says Sir Thomas Browne, " we rub our hands before the moon and commit any maculated part to the touch of the dead." In Devonshire it is said that the hair and nails should always be cut during the waning of the moon,... | |
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of beef from a butcher's shop, and rub your wart with it, then throw it down the necessary-house, or bury it, and as the beef rots, your warts will decay.' Sir Thomas Browne says, ' for warts we rub our hands before the moon, and commit any maculated... 
