Dictionary definition: ANIMAL, buying and selling

Article: Charlotte Sophia Burne: Shropshire Folklorist, ...
Folklore;  April 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ...Abstract Charlotte Burne (1850-1923) served the Folklore Society (FLS) for forty years. She was editor of the massive Shropshire Folklore (1883-6), and the second revised edition of the FLS's only official guide, The Handbook of Folklore (1914). She authored over seventy folklore papers, notes and

Article: Charlotte Sophia Burne: Shropshire Folklorist, ...
Folklore;  April 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ...Update Introduction Since Gordon Ashman and I wrote Part 1 of this study of the life and works of Charlotte Burne (Ashman and Bennett 2000), further research has uncovered additional information, resolved one or two queries, and shown that some of the details were not quite correct. For the past

Dictionary definition: ELBOW itches
A Dictionary of Superstitions;      424 words ...ELBOW itches 1584 SCOT Discoverie of Witchcraft XI XIII . The tingling in … the elbow ... elbow [itches] you will walk over strange ground. 1883 BURNE Shropshire 270. If your elbow itches, you will have a strange bedfellow ...

Dictionary definition: KNEE itches
A Dictionary of Superstitions;      290 words ...KNEE itches 1584 SCOT Discoverie of Witchcraft XI XIII . The tingling in … the knee ... the knee itches, you will kneel in a strange church. 1883 BURNE Shropshire 270. If your knee [itches] you will kneel at a strange ...

Dictionary definition: HARE OR RABBIT, meeting
A Dictionary of Superstitions;      700+ words ... ... departed, and after goo on his waye withouten peryll. 1584 SCOT Discoverie of Witchcraft XI XV . He that receiveth a mischance, wil ... home, would turn back, regarding it as a warning. 1883 BURNE Shropshire 212. It is lucky to meet a hare (Waters' Upton and Cold ...

Dictionary definition: BLEEDING, charm to staunch
A Dictionary of Superstitions;      700+ words ... ... paternoster] in the worschyp of the v Woundes. 1584 SCOT Discoverie of Witchcraft XII XVIII . For a bloudie flux: ‘ ... Bloody nose (or mouth) in God's name mend. 1883 BURNE Shropshire 183. Here [is a charm] of which Sarah Mason's father ...

Dictionary definition: CHURCH BELL cures
A Dictionary of Superstitions;      479 words ... ... fiend-sick man, to be drunk out of a church bell. 1584 SCOT Discoverie of Witchcraft XI XV . Women with child run to church ... and I rubbed it in, and I be cured.’ 1883 BURNE Shropshire 191. At Oswestry, grease (called bletch ) from the church ...