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L O W L A N D S - L  -  27 April 2007 - Volume 08

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From: "Margaret Tarbet <oneko at att.net>" <oneko at att.net>
Subject: LL-L "History" [E]

Responding to Marcus, Jonny scrievit:

> > Still in the end of the 1980ies when I was a little boy my mother
> > brought me to a woman, who had to bespeak (is this the right word? In
> > German "besprechen") my warts (they vanished after it).
>
> The LS-word is 'raden'/'roden', wordly translated into G: 'raten', meaning
> both 'to advise' or 'to guess'. I'd also like to know the correct English
> word for these 'magic' matters.

The verb in standard English would be 'charm', I think, though there are
several regional dialects in which the verb 'hex' would also be okay.
 Phrases would be 'she charmed off/away the wart', or 'she can hex away
warts', and sometimes 'she's a wart doctor' (an encoded way of saying she's
a witch/wise-woman).

Margaret

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