Gypsy sorcery and fortune telling, illustrated by numerous incantations, specimens of medical magic, anecdotes, and tales (1891)
Leland, Charles Godfrey, 1824-1903 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 171
THE HAUNTS, HOMES, AND HABITS OF WITCHES. i53 sleep. But they are particularly fond of assembling socially in the tops oftrees, especially of the ash, walnut, and linden or lime kinds, preferring thwhose branches grow in the manner here depicted. ose … It is but a few days ago, as I write, that I observed all along the routefrom Padua to Florence thousands of trees supporting vines, which trees hadbeen trained to take this form, the farmers being as much influenced by luck in so doing as utility ; for it is not really essential that the treeshall…
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