10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CHURNMILK»
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churnmilk in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
churnmilk and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Walking the Faery Pathway
Churnmilk Peg is a dryad of North Yorkshire. She is sighted wearing medieval
peasant clothing and is a guardian of all nut trees found in England. Her
counterpart is Melch Dick. Children cannot steal the nuts or Churnmilk Peg will
catch them.
ChurnMilk. Joan. A lonely stone Afloat in the stone heavings of emptiness Keeps
telling her tale. Foxes killed her. You take thecoins outof the hollow in the top of it.
Put your ownin. Foxes killed her here. Why justhere? Why not five yardsthat ...
Great Britain alone has quite a few nursery bogeys. They include tales of Auld
Scratty, Bug-a-boo, the Child Guzzler, Old Bloody Bones, and Raw Head. British
children who steal fruit from trees may have to face Awd Goggie or Churnmilk
Peg.
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The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals
I walked in the morning to Churnmilk Force nearly, & went upon Heifer crags. The
valley of its winter yellow, but the bed of the brook still in some places almost
shaded with leaves—the oaks brown in general but one that might be almost
called ...
Dorothy Wordsworth, Pamela Woof, 2002
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The Emigrant's Guide to the Colony of Natal. Illustrated ...
He had also made yearly £80 worth of butter from forty cows, and had had plenty
of churnmilk for pigs and poultry, and a year ago he was beginning to purchase
and fatten Free State oxen for the colonial winter market. Other old colonists, and
...
of the Old G. and Young L. lt then turned upon Steam-Boats, Stocks, Tobacco,
Churnmilk, L. J. Kosraa, Printing, Music, Fishing , and Horses; during which
discussions, we were making the memorandums from which the Colloquy has
been ...
CHURNMILK, Buttermilk. CHURRUS, see Bangue. CHUTE, Prolapsus — c. du
Fondement, Proctocele — с. de la Matrice, Procidentia uteri — e. dee Oeii/t, see
Parturition — c. du Rectum, Prootooele. CHYLAIRE, Chylous. CHYLAR, Chylous.
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Medical Lexicon. A New Dictionary of Medical Science, ...
CHURNMILK, Buttermilk. CHURRUS, see Bangue. CH U TE, Prolapsus—c. do
ledcmcnl, Proctoccle—c. de la llatri'ce, Procidentia uteri—c. des Oenfa, sec
Parturition—c. dn Rectum, Prootocele. OH YLAIIi'E, Chylous. CHYLAR. Chylous.
9
Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology:
Variations: Acorn Lady, Churnmilk Peg In the folklore of West Yorkshire, England
the arthritic, lazy, and pipe-smoking Churn Milk Peg guards over unripe nut
thickets; she is used by mothers as a NURSERY BOGIE to keep children from
picking ...
10
Sheep, Swine and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties ...
In dairyregions the animal is likewise frequently employedat the treadmill or
horizontal wheel, to pumpwater, churnmilk, or perform otherlight domestic work.
The callingof the shepherd has, from time immemorial, been conspicuous, and
not ...
