 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1835 - 386 páginas
...ran thus : — Foot ! foot ! foot ! is fast asleep ! Thumb ! thumb ! thumb ! in spittle we steep : Crosses three we make to ease us, Two for the thieves, and one for Christ Jesus ! And the same charm served for a cramp in the leg, with the following substitution : — The devil... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1835 - 410 páginas
...lAn thus : — Foot ! foot ! foot ! is fast asleep ! Thumb ! thumb ! thumb ! in spittle we steep ; Crosses three we make to ease us, Two for the thieves, and one for Christ Jesus ! And the same charm served for a cramp in the leg, with the following substitution : — The devil... | |
 | Robley Dunglison - 1851 - 956 páginas
...(Coleridge.) Foot I fool I foot ! is fast asleep ! Thumb! thumb! thumb! in spittle we steep: Croises three we make to ease us, Two for the thieves, and one for Christ Jesus. The same charm served for cramp in the leg, with this substitution : The devil is tying a knot in my... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 528 páginas
...ran thus : — Foot 1 foot ! foot ! is fast asleep ! Thumb I thumb ! thumb ! in spittle we steep ; Crosses three we make to ease us, Two for the thieves, and one for Christ Jesus ! And the same charm served for a cramp in the leg, with the following substitution : — The devil... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 554 páginas
...it It ran thus:— Foot I foot I foot! is fast asleep I Thumb I thumb! thumb! in spittle we steep; Crosses three we make to ease us, Two for the thieves, and one for Christ Jesus! And the same charm served for a cramp in the leg, with the following substitution:— The dcril is... | |
 | 1863 - 648 páginas
...one. We have not heard it in Ireland : — " CHARM FOR CRAMP. " The devil is tying a knot in my leg, Mark, Luke, and John, unloose it, I beg. Crosses three...us, Two for the thieves, and one for Christ Jesus." " CHARM FOR EPILEPSY. — NO. 1. "Caspar brings myrrh, Melchior incense, Balthazar * gold ; whoever... | |
 | 1863 - 568 páginas
...this one. We have not heard it in Ireland : " CHAHM FOn CKAMP. " The devil is tying a knot in my leg, Mark, Luke, and John, unloose it, I beg. Crosses three...to ease us, Two for the thieves, and one for CHRIST JESTJS." " CHABM FOR EPILEPSY. — NO. 1. "Caspar brings myrrh, Melchior incense, Balthazar* gold ;... | |
 | Phineas Taylor Barnum - 1866 - 368 páginas
...cramp, found in vogue in some rustic regions, is this : — " The devil ia tying a knot in my leg, Mark, Luke, and John, unloose it, I beg, Crosses three...— Two for the thieves, and one for Christ Jesus." Here is another, often used in Ireland, which in the same spirit of superstition and ignorant irreverence... | |
 | Robley Dunglison - 1866 - 1094 páginas
...asleep. (Coleridge.) Footl foot! foot! lifutiuloopl Thumb! thumb! thumb! In spittle we sU«p; CIXMWM three we make to ease us. Two for the thieves, and one for Christ Jenu. The same charm served for cramp in the I«6 with this substitution: The devil is tying a knot... | |
 | Phineas Taylor Barnum - 1866 - 370 páginas
...— " The devil is tying a knot in my leg, Murk, Luke, and John, unloose it, I beg, Crosses three wo make to ease us — Two for the thieves, and one for Christ Jesus." Here is another, often used in Ireland, which in the same spirit of superstition and ignorant irreverence... | |
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Foot! foot! foot! is fast asleep! Thumb! thumb! thumb! in spittle we steep: Crosses three we make to ease us, Two for the thieves, and one for Christ Jesus. 
