 | Jacob Grimm - Germanic peoples - 1844 - 650 pages
...den fireside stories by Rob. Chambers, Edinb. 1842 p. 37 entnommne Überlieferung. When a person bas received a sprain, it is customary to apply to an...casting the wresting thread. this is a thread spun from block ii'iml. on which are cast nine knots , and tied round a sprnined leg or arm. During the time... | |
 | Jacob Grimm - Germanic peoples - 1844 - 640 pages
...schottische, aus den fireside stories by Rob. Chambers, Edinb. 1842 p. 37 entnommne Überlieferung. When a person has received a sprain, it is customary...to an individual practised in casting the wresting ihread. this is a thread spun from block wool, on which are cast nine knots , and tieil round a tprained... | |
 | 1844 - 858 pages
...Statistical Account of Scotland, mention is made of the following among other superstitions : — ' \Vhen a person has received a sprain, it is customary to apply to an individual practised in casting the u-restiny thread. This is a thread spun from black wool, on which are cast nine knote, and :ied round... | |
 | Jacob Grimm - Germanic peoples - 1844 - 646 pages
...schottische, aus den fireside stories by Rob. Chambers, Edinb. 1842 p. 37 entnommne Überlieferung. When a person has received a sprain, it is customary to apply to an individual praclised in casling the wresting thread" this is a thread span from block ivool, on which are cast... | |
 | Adalbert Kuhn - Indo-European philology - 1864 - 510 pages
...mittheilung hat schon Grimm aus Chambers' tireside stories (1842 p. 3?) mitgetheilt: When a person bas received a sprain, it is customary to apply to an individual practised in castiug the wresting thread. this is a thread spuu from black wool, 011 which are cast n ine knots,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1872 - 492 pages
...are in use to this day. In Robert Chambers's " Fireside Stories " it is reported from Scotland that " when a person has received a sprain, it is customary...to apply to an individual practised in casting the wresting-thread. This is a thread spun from black wool, on which are cast nine knots, and tied round... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology - America - 1892 - 704 pages
...chauuce as fall Shall sure have chylde, for within it is hollowe all." ' When a person iu Shetland has received a sprain *' it is customary to apply to an individual practiced in casting the 'wrested thread.' This is a thread spun from black wool, on which are cast... | |
 | 1888 - 536 pages
...well as those of horses. The operation is described in Chambers's " Popular Rhymes of Scotland." " When a person has received a sprain, it is customary to apply to an individual practiced in casting the ' wresting-thread.' " This is a thread spun from black wool, on which are... | |
 | Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow - Science - 1890 - 324 pages
...FORM OF INCANTATION. In Chambers' "Popular Rhymes of Scotland" (Edinburgh, 1842, page 37), we read : " When a person has received a sprain it is customary to apply to an individual practised in easting the wresting thread. This is a thread spun from black wool, on which are cast nine knots, and... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1891 - 890 pages
...simple mind. Thus in Shetland, according to a writer in the A'cic Statistical Account of Scotland, 'when a person has received a sprain it is customary...to apply to an individual practised in casting the " wrestingthread." This is a thread spun from black wool, on which are cast nine knots, and tied round... | |
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This is a thread spun from black wool, on which are cast nine knots, and tied round a sprained leg or arm. During the time the operator is putting the thread round the affected limb,' he says, but in such a tone of voice... 
