Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 91, July 26, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. — John Shaqi
Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 91, July 26, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 91, July 26, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Questions and answers -- Periodicals
"The flesh eaten causeth oblivion, and corrupteth the meat; yet
those of Chalecut eat them; it is hot, soft, and fattish, and
expelleth melancholy.... A mouse dissected and applied, draweth
out reeds, darts, and other things that stick in the flesh....
Mice bruised, and reduced to the consistence of an _acopon_
(what's that?), with old wine, cause hair on the eyebrows....
Being eaten by children when rosted, they dry up the spittle. The
magicians eat them twice a month against the paines of the teeth.
The water in which they have been boiled helps against the
quinsey. Being boiled and eaten, they help children's pissing in
bed. The fresh blood kills warts. The ashes of the skinne, applied
with vinegar, help the paines of the head. The head worn in a
cloth, helps the headach and epilepsy. The braine being steeped in
wine, and applied to the forehead, helpeth the headach. Used with
water, it cureth the phrensy. The heart, _taken out of a mouse_
WHEN ALIVE, worne about the arme of a woman, causeth no
conception. The fillet of the liver, drunk with austere wine,
helpeth quartans. The liver, rosted in the new of the moon, trieth
the epilepsy. The dung, is corrosive. Given in any liquor, it
helpeth the collicke. It looseneth the body; therefore some nurses
use it for children in suppositories(?). It helpeth hollow teeth,
being put therein."
There is more of the sort, to the extent of 2¾ closely printed pages.
It should be added that the author quotes authorities, old and new, for
the several facts he adduces. Pliny is a great authority with him, and
Galen is often cited.
J. K.
_Legend of Haydon's Gully._--In the parish of Hinton-Blewett, North
Somersetshire, or immediately adjoining it, in the direction of West
Harptree, there is a wooded gorge in the hill-side, through which runs a
small stream, and which is called "Haydon's Gully." I have lately heard
the following tradition respecting it; viz. that a gentleman named
Colonel Haydon, who was accused of high treason, used to spend his
nights under his brother's roof, somewhere in the neighbourhood, and
every morning came and backed his horse into a hole in the bank, where
he spent the day in order to evade his pursuers. You will perhaps agree
with me, that this story, which, if it has any truth in it, probably
refers to Monmouth's days, is worth inquiring into.
ARTHUR WRIGHT.
_The Crow Charm and the Lady-bird Charm._--The following charms are
repeated by children throughout Yorkshire and Lancashire, and, I doubt
not, in other parts of the kingdom also. They may be classed with the
"Snail Charms" (Vol. iii., pp. 132. 179.):
_Crow Charm._
"Crow, crow, get out of my sight,
Or else I'll eat thy liver and lights."
_Lady-bird Charm._
"Lady-bird, lady-bird, eigh thy way home;
Thy house is on fire, thy children all roam,
Except little Nan, who sits in her pan,
Weaving gold-laces as fast as she can."
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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