10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WITCHES' BUTTER»
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witches' butter in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
witches' butter and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Mushrooms of West Virginia and the Central Appalachians
Common name: Witches Butter. Order: Tremellales Family: Tremellaceae
Fruitbody: A complex gelatinous mass up to 4 in. (10 cm) or more across;
convoluted at first, becoming lobed and irregularly folded; pale yellow to golden
yellow or ...
But, no very long time ago, this " cuckoo-spittle" had a very bad name, and
constituted, under the name of " witches- butter," one of the proofs, as the sages
of the church and the law then pronounced such absurdities to be, that consigned
...
William John Broderip, 1848
But, no very long time ago, this " cuckoo-spittle" had a very bad name, and
constituted under the name of " witches-butter," one of the proofs, as the sages of
the church and the law then pronounced such absurdities to be, that consigned ...
Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton, 1841
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Colburn's New Monthly Magazine and Humorist
... and constituted under the name of “ witches-butter,” one of the proofs, as the
sages of the church and the law then pronounced such absurdities to be, that
consigned numbers of women and children to the last penalties of the law at
Mohra, ...
5
The New Monthly Magazine
... under the name of " witches-butter," one of the proofs, as the sages of the
church and the law then pronounced such absurdities to be, that consigned
numbers of women and children to the last penalties of the law at Mohra, in
Sweden, in the ...
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The New monthly magazine and universal register. [Continued ...
But, no very long time ago, this " cuckoo-spittle" had a very bad name, and
constituted under the name of " witches-butter," one of the proofs, as the sages of
the church and the law then pronounced such absurdities to be, that consigned ...
7
Dictionary of the Occult
Witches' Butter: In Swedish legend, cats, the familiars of witches, were so well fed
that while accompanying their mistresses on a Sabbat assembly they often
vomited on to kitchen gardens. The result was called Witches' Butter. Witches'
Circle: ...
witches' butter In Swedish legend the familiars of witches, cats, were so well fed
that while accompanying their mistresses to a Sabbat they often vomited in
gardens. The result was called witches' butter. witches' circle A circle intended to
...
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The Demon Dictionary Volume One: Know Your Enemy. Learn His ...
witches' butter In Swedish legend the familiars of witches, cats, were so well fed
that while accompanying their mistresses to a Sabbat they often vomited in
gardens. The result was called witches' butter. witches' circle A circle intended to
...
In the last-named country it is said that if nine kinds of wood be formed into a pile
and kindled, and some of this witches' butter be cast into it, those who have been
justly suspected as witches must come forward and declare themselves.
