The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Clegg, Reverend ( - )
Relevant locations: Residence at Buxton, DerbyshireLinked print sources: as Donator of object(s) - Ducatus Leodiensis; or the topography of the town and parish of Leedes and parts adjacent ...
References in Documents:
LhywdAdder-Bead
stinguishing Mark of the
Elfes-Arrows of the
Flintin the Form of an Arrows Head, and are
sometimes set in Silver, and worn as Amulets, against being
Elf shot,
Phil. Trans. N° 269
Fairys(not having much Power themselves to hurt Animal Bodies) do
sometimes carry Men into the Air and employ them in shooting Men
and Cattle. This was sent me by
Ja. Sutherland
Edinburgh.
Clegg
byshire
these in Form, but an
OrangeColour.
Lhwyd
by Letters (
July
High-landersdo at this Day use also
the
Echinites Galeatus, and the
Pileatus, as Amulets; the former they
call the Stone of
Victory, or
Duel-stone, and the other they esteem as
efficacious in preventing Damage by Fire or Water; here is
either Sort.
Customs that have been once received in those darker Ages, here
is a
some of the Vulgar, even in these Parts of
ed about the Neck of any bewitched Animal, will unspell the Charm.
Don.
Jo. Astley
now in this
Musæum, was defaced by the superstitious Conceit of the
Boors, who finding it under Ground, concluded it a Token of con
cealed Treasure; to discover which they bound Withys or Wreaths
of Straw about the poor
a Discovery of the Treasure by some Magical Apparition in the Smoke,
which Notion seems a Relick of the Heathen Λιβανομαν
Divinati
on by Smoke or Incence.
on by Smoke or Incence