 | William Hamilton Maxwell - 1832 - 356 Seiten
...house ; some died others became infected, and the customary cure produced by changing them to drier pasture failed. A wise woman was consulted, and the...his habitation — the harmless and amusing seal. It must be made away with directly, or the crippawn would continue, and her charms be unequal to avert... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - 1832 - 690 Seiten
...house ; some died others became infected, and the customary cure produced by changing them to drier pasture failed. A wise woman was consulted, and the...his habitation — the harmless and amusing seal. It must be made away with directly, or the crippawn would continue, and her charms be unequal to avert... | |
 | 1832 - 952 Seiten
...house ; some died, others became infected, and the customary cure produced by changing them to drier pasture failed. A wise woman was consulted, and the...his habitation — the harmless and amusing seal. It must be made away with directly, or the crippawn would continue, and her charms be unequal to avert... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - 1833 - 218 Seiten
...house ; some died, others became infected, and the customary cure produced by changing them to drier pasture failed. A wise woman was consulted, and the hag assured the credulous owner * In January, 1819, in the neighbourhood of Burnlisland, a gentleman completely succeeded in taming... | |
 | The Mirror of Literature,Amusement,and Instruction VOL.XXXII - 1838 - 474 Seiten
...customary care produced by changing them te drier pasture failed. Л wise woman was consulted, and the hug assured the credulous owner, that the mortality among...occasioned by his retaining an unclean beast about his habitation—the harmless und amusing seul. It must be made away with directly, or the crippawn would... | |
 | 1838 - 472 Seiten
...customary care produced by changing them to drier pasture Tailed. A wise woman was consulted, and the hug assured the credulous owner, that the mortality among...occasioned by his retaining an unclean beast about his habitation—the harmless and amusing sex]. It must be made aw»y with directly, or the crippawn would... | |
 | Seba Smith, Lawrence Labree - 1844 - 498 Seiten
...house ; some died, others became infected, and the customary cure produced by changing them to drier pasture failed. A wise woman was consulted; and the...his habitation — the harmless and amusing seal. It must be made away with directly, or the crippawn would continue, and her charms be unequal to avert... | |
 | Edward Pett Thompson - 1851 - 434 Seiten
...house; some died, others became infected, and the customary cure produced by changing them to drier pasture failed. A wise woman was consulted; and the...occasioned by his retaining an unclean beast about his I habitation — the harmless and amusing seal. It must be made away with directly, or the crippawn... | |
 | William Wallace Fyfe - 1851 - 408 Seiten
...crippawn — a fatal disease or paralysis of the limbs, which an old woman assured him was owing to his retaining " an unclean beast" about his habitation — the harmless and amusing seal. Put into a boat, and carried beyond Clare Island, the poor seal was banished to the outre mer; but... | |
 | Hackney lit. and sci. inst - 264 Seiten
...house ; some died, others became infected, and the customary cure produced by changing them to drier pasture failed. A wise woman was consulted and the...occasioned by his retaining an unclean beast about its habitation; the harmless and amusing seal. It must be made away with directly, or the crippawn... | |
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... a kind of paralytic affection of the limbs which generally ends fatally — attacked some black cattle belonging to the master of the house ; some died others became infected, and the customary cure produced by changing them to drier pasture failed.... 
