Folk-Medicine; a Chapter in the History of Culture
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Thus, when people went to St. Oswald's Well to discover by the floating or sinking of his shirt if a man would recover or not, they at their departure hung a rag of the shirt on the bush at hand. This, too, was the custom at Holywell Dale, in North Lincolnshire, at Great Cotes, at St. John's Well, Aghada, Cork, and many other places. Park, speaking of a large tree decorated with rags and scraps of cloth, * Grimm, vol. i. p. 3i (or Stallybrass, vol. i. p. 41); Dennya, pp. 68, 69; "Romance of Chi...nese Social Life," Temple Bar, Jnly, 1880, p. 319; Dyer, Englisli Folh-Lore, p. 93 ; Dalyell, p. 86 ; Levens, 1664, Patlmay to Health, cited in Notes and Queries, 1st S. vol. ii. p. 435; Mitchell, Past m the Present, pp. 146, 265, 274. 74 FOLK-MEDICINE. says that at first these scraps were probably to inform the traveller that water was near, but that the custom has been so sanc- tioned that nobody presumes to pass without hanging up some- thing.* It is more conformable, however, to the rules of super- stition to think that this tree served to the Africans the purpose of the votive temples of the Romans.
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