 | John Brand - 1842 - 312 pagina’s
...helieved to possess the most extraordinary power in remedying all diseases incidental to the hrute creation, as well as the human race, to discover lost...'the seventh son of a seventh son,' and professed ostensihly the trade of a cowdoctor. To this fellow, people, whose education it might have heen expected... | |
 | John Brand - 1842 - 306 pagina’s
...orders are still to be found in Yorkshire. These are called 'Wise Men,' and are believed to possess the most extraordinary power in remedying all diseases...the North Riding of Yorkshire ; his name was John Wrightsw,, and he called himself 'the seventh son of a seventh son,' and professed ostensibly the trade... | |
 | John Brand, Henry Ellis - 1849 - 520 pagina’s
...orders are still to be found in Yorkshire. These are called ' Wise Men,' and are believed to possess the most extraordinary power in remedying all diseases...Stokesley, in the North Riding of Yorkshire ; his Dame was John Wrightson, and he called himself 'the seventh son of a seventh son,' and professed ostensibly... | |
 | John Brand - 1855 - 520 pagina’s
...orders are still to be found in Yorkshire. These are called ' Wise Men,' and are believed to possess the most extraordinary power in remedying all diseases...at Stokesley, in the North Riding of Yorkshire; his came was John Wrightson, and he called himself 'the seventh son of a seventh son,' and professed ostensibly... | |
 | John Christopher Atkinson - 1891 - 490 pagina’s
...lower orders are still to be found in Yorkshire. These are called Wise Men, and are believed to possess the most extraordinary power in remedying all diseases...son of a seventh son, and professed ostensibly the -calling of a cowdoctor ('cow-leech,' it should have been). To this fellow people whose education,... | |
 | Folklore Society (Great Britain) - 1901 - 504 pagina’s
...orders are still to be found in Yorkshire. These are called ' Wise Men,' and are believed to possess the most extraordinary power in remedying all diseases incidental to the brute creation, as well as to the human race, to discover lost or stolen *. . . He was bound over at the assizes to good behaviour.... | |
 | Eliza Gutch - 1901 - 502 pagina’s
...orders are still to be found in Yorkshire. These are called 'Wise Men,' and are believed to possess the most extraordinary power in remedying all diseases incidental to the brute creation, as well as to the human race, to discover lost or stolen 1 ... He was bound over at the assizes to good behaviour.... | |
 | James R. Lewis - 1996 - 436 pagina’s
...century. Rev. Atkinson quotes an anonymous writer in 1819 that the wise men "... are believed to possess the most extraordinary power in remedying all diseases...race; to discover lost or stolen property, and to fortell future events" (1891, 14). The writer was quite disparaging in the accepted rationalist manner... | |
| |
Men,' and are believed to possess the most extraordinary power in remedying all diseases incidental to the brute creation, as well as the human race, to discover lost or stolen property, and to foretell future events. One of these wretches was a few years... 