 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 852 pages
...Bermudas they use to put an iron into the fire when a witch comes in. Mars is enemy to Saturn." He adds, " Under the porch of Staninfield Church, in Suffolk,...I am told there are many other similar instances." In 1797, Mr. Brand says," In Monmouthstreet, many horse-shoes nailed to the thresholds are still to... | |
 | William Hone - 1832 - 874 pages
...Bermudas they use to put an iron into the fire when a witch comes in. Mars is enemy to Saturn." He adds, " es who travelled in their own carriages contracted with Benson and Co. hoise-shoe upon it, placed there for this purpose, though one would imagine that Holy Water would alone... | |
 | John Brand - 1842 - 306 pages
...when a W itch comes in. Mars is enemy to Saturn." He adds, ihid., " Und,T the porch of Srauinfield church in Suffolk, I saw a tile with a horse-shoe...I am told there are many other similar instances." Misson, in his "Travels in England," p. 192, on the subject of the horse-shoe nailed on the door, tells... | |
 | John Brand - Christian antiquities - 1842 - 312 pages
...an iron into I the fire when a Witch comes in. Mars is ene- : my to Saturn." He adds, ihid., " Und-r the porch of Staninfield church in Suffolk, I saw a tile with a horse-shoe upon it, placed there i for this purpose, though one would imagine that holy water would alone have heen suffici- 1 mt. I... | |
 | John Brand, Henry Ellis - Christian antiquities - 1849 - 520 pages
...used to put an iron into the fire when a witch comes in. Mars is enemy to Saturn." He adds, ibid. : " Under the porch of Staninfield Church, in Suffolk,...I am told there are many other similar instances." Misson, in his Travels in England, p. 192, on the subject of the horseshoe nailed on the door, tells... | |
 | John Brand - 1855 - 520 pages
...horse-shoe, hollow flint." tie fire when a witch comes in. Mars is enemy to Saturn." He adds, ibid.: " Under the porch of Staninfield Church, in Suffolk,...I am told there are many other similar instances." Misson, in his Travels in England, p. 192, on the subject of the horseshoe nailed on the door, tells... | |
 | John Timbs - 1856 - 304 pages
...on the threshold. It should bo a horse-shoe that one finds." He adds, " Under the porch of Stanfield Church, in Suffolk, I saw a tile, with a horse-shoe upon it, placed there for this purpose, that one would imafjine that holy water alone would have been sufficient. I am told there are many... | |
 | John Timbs - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1857 - 444 pages
...on the threshold. It should be a horse-shoe that one finds." He adds, " Under the porch of Stanfield Church, in Suffolk, I saw a tile, with a horse-shoe upon it, placed there for this purpose, that one would imagine that holy water alone would have been sufficient. I am told there are many more... | |
 | John Timbs - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1862 - 360 pages
...on the threshold. It should be a horse-shoe that one finds." He adds, " Under the porch of Stanfield Church, in Suffolk, I saw a tile, with a horse-shoe upon it, placed there for this purpose, that one would imagine that holy water alone would have beer. sufficient. I am told there are many... | |
 | Jacob Larwood, John Camden Hotten - Inn signs - 1866 - 616 pages
...Porch of Staninfield Church in Suffolk, I saw a tilo with & * Lloyd's Evening Pott, Jan. 18-19, 1761. horseshoe upon it placed there for this purpose, though one would imagine that the holy water would have been sufficient." Concerning the same superstition Brand observes : — "... | |
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Under the porch of Staninfield Church in Suffolk, I saw a Tile with a Horse-shoe upon it, placed there for this purpose, though one would imagine that Holy Water would alone have been sufficient. I am told there are many other similar instances. 
