Philosophical Library/Open Road

Easter Sunday to place herbs and simples in a wooden vessel together with the dried carcase of a snake, which every person present must have touched with his, or her, fingers.

The herbs were then burned.

To prevent a child having the whooping-cough, hang an adder stone round its neck.

remote parts of the Highlands.

Serpents’ Eggs and Snake Eggs

Freedom has to come from a purifying reflection or a total disappearance of the affecting situation.

The Renaissance is the most famous term in historical discourse.

no one is presumed to trifle at the point of death”