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

The Renaissance is the most famous term in historical discourse.

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