 | John Trotter Brockett - Dialect literature, English - 1825 - 296 pages
...antiquated towers or bridges — have a very different character imputed to them. Among other pranks, they will sometimes jump behind a horseman, and compress...home, or falls into some lingering and direful malady. DOCKON, the dock, rumex obtusifofius. A charm is connected with the medicinal application of this plant.... | |
 | John Trotter Brockett - 1825 - 298 pages
...antiquated towers or Bridges — have a very different character imputed to them. Among other pranks, they will sometimes jump behind a horseman, and compress...home, or falls into some lingering and direful malady. DOCKON, the dock, rumex obtumfolius. A charm is connected with the medicinal application of this plant.... | |
 | Rev. W. W. Skeat - 1874 - 388 pages
...antiquated towers, bridges, &c., have a character imputed to them different from that of the house-demons. Benighted travellers are thought to be much endangered...home, or falls into some lingering and direful malady. ' Merry-nights ' are celebrated in farm-houses, chiefly about Christmas, and prove so interesting,... | |
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... being attached to the persons, not to place, would remove also, and commence his revels in the new habitation. The dobbies residing in lone granges, or barns, and near antiquated towers, bridges, &c., have a character imputed to them different from... 