BAT

From: A Dictionary of Superstitions | Date: 1996| Author: IONA OPIE and MOIRA TATEM | Copyright information

BAT
AD 77 PLINY Natural History XXIX XXVI (1856, V 400) If one … is carried alive, three times round a house … and then nailed outside of the window with the head downwards, it will have all the effects of a countercharm.

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