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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font size="2"> </font></p><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">From: </font><span class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color:#790619">Michael Keach</span> <span class="go"><a href="mailto:mike.keach@gmail.com">mike.keach@gmail.com</a></span></span><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><br>
Subject: </font><span class="gI">LL-L "Etymology" 2011.05.26 (02) [EN]<br><br></span><div>Re: Adder Stones</div>
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<div>Ron,</div>
<div>Adder stones were/are believed to be used by Druids/Pagans/Witches,
etc. Like a scrying bowl, the practitioner can look through the hole
and divine images. The Fairy in charge of spinning in Bruder Grimm
Hausmarchen, Habatroth, used one in that story.</div>
<div><br>From an online source:</div>
<p><b>Adder stone</b> is a type of stone, usually glassy, with a naturally-occurring hole through it<sup style="white-space:nowrap" title="This claim needs references to reliable sources from September 2009">[<i><a title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" href="../wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" target="_blank"><font color="#0645ad">citation needed</font></a></i>]</sup>. Such stones have been discovered by <a title="Archaeology" href="../wiki/Archaeology" target="_blank"><font color="#0645ad">archaeologists</font></a> in both <a title="Great Britain" href="../wiki/Great_Britain" target="_blank"><font color="#0645ad">Britain</font></a> and <a title="Egypt" href="../wiki/Egypt" target="_blank"><font color="#0645ad">Egypt</font></a>.</p>
<p>In Britain they are also called <b>hag stones</b>, <b>witch stones</b>, <b>serpent's eggs</b>, <b>snake's eggs</b>, or <i><b>glain neidyr</b></i> in <a title="Wales" href="../wiki/Wales" target="_blank"><font color="#0645ad">Wales</font></a>, <i><b>milpreve</b></i> in <a title="Cornwall" href="../wiki/Cornwall" target="_blank"><font color="#0645ad">Cornwall</font></a>, <i><b>adderstanes</b></i> in the south of <a title="Scotland" href="../wiki/Scotland" target="_blank"><font color="#0645ad">Scotland</font></a> and <i><b>Gloine nan Druidh</b></i> ("Druids' glass" in <a title="Scottish Gaelic" href="../wiki/Scottish_Gaelic" target="_blank"><font color="#0645ad">Scottish Gaelic</font></a>) in the north. In Egypt they are called <i><b>aggry</b></i> or <i><b>aggri</b></i>.</p>
<p>Adder stones were believed to have <a title="Magic (paranormal)" href="../wiki/Magic_%28paranormal%29" target="_blank"><font color="#0645ad">magical</font></a> powers such as protection against eye diseases or evil charms, preventing <a title="Nightmare" href="../wiki/Nightmare" target="_blank"><font color="#0645ad">nightmares</font></a>, curing <a title="Pertussis" href="../wiki/Pertussis" target="_blank"><font color="#0645ad">whooping cough</font></a>, and of course recovery from <a title="Snakebite" href="../wiki/Snakebite" target="_blank"><font color="#0645ad">snakebite</font></a>. According to popular conception, a true adder stone will float in water.</p>
<p>Two traditions exist as to the origins of adder stones. One holds that the stones are the hardened <a title="Saliva" href="../wiki/Saliva" target="_blank"><font color="#0645ad">saliva</font></a> of large numbers of <a title="Snake" href="../wiki/Snake" target="_blank"><font color="#0645ad">serpents</font></a>
massing together, the perforations being caused by their tongues. The
other claims that an adder stone comes from the head of a serpent or is
made by the sting of an adder.<sup><a href="html/compose/static_files/blank_quirks.html#cite_note-Roud-0" target="_blank"><font color="#0645ad"><span>[</span>1<span>]</span></font></a></sup></p>
<p>Adder stone was in high esteem amongst the <a title="Druid" href="../wiki/Druid" target="_blank"><font color="#0645ad">Druids</font></a>. It was one of their distinguishing badges, and was accounted to possess the most extraordinary virtues. There is a passage in <a title="Pliny the Elder" href="../wiki/Pliny_the_Elder" target="_blank"><font color="#0645ad">Pliny</font></a>’s <i><a title="Natural History (Pliny)" href="../wiki/Natural_History_%28Pliny%29" target="_blank"><font color="#0645ad">Natural History</font></a></i>, book xix, minutely describing the nature and the properties of this amulet. The following is a translation of it:</p>
<dl><dd>"There is a sort of <a title="Egg (biology)" href="../wiki/Egg_%28biology%29" target="_blank"><font color="#0645ad">egg</font></a> in great repute among the <a title="Gauls" href="../wiki/Gauls" target="_blank"><font color="#0645ad">Gauls</font></a>, of which the <a title="Greek literature" href="../wiki/Greek_literature" target="_blank"><font color="#0645ad">Greek writers</font></a> have made no mention. A vast number of <a title="Snake" href="../wiki/Snake" target="_blank"><font color="#0645ad">serpents</font></a> are twisted together in summer, and coiled up in an artificial knot by their <a title="Saliva" href="../wiki/Saliva" target="_blank"><font color="#0645ad">saliva</font></a>
and slime; and this is called "the serpent's egg". The druids say that
it is tossed in the air with hissings and must be caught in a cloak
before it touches the earth. The person who thus intercepts it, flies on
<a title="Horseback" href="../wiki/Horseback" target="_blank"><font color="#0645ad">horseback</font></a>; for the serpents will pursue him until prevented by intervening water. This egg, though bound in <a title="Gold" href="../wiki/Gold" target="_blank"><font color="#0645ad">gold</font></a>
will swim against the stream. And the magi are cunning to conceal their
frauds, they give out that this egg must be obtained at a certain age
of the <a title="Moon" href="../wiki/Moon" target="_blank"><font color="#0645ad">moon</font></a>. I have seen that egg as large and as round as a common sized <a title="Apple" href="../wiki/Apple" target="_blank"><font color="#0645ad">apple</font></a>, in a chequered <a title="Cartilage" href="../wiki/Cartilage" target="_blank"><font color="#0645ad">cartilaginous</font></a>
cover, and worn by the Druids. It is wonderfully extolled for gaining
lawsuits, and access to kings. It is a badge which is worn with such
ostentation, that I knew a <a title="Ancient Rome" href="../wiki/Ancient_Rome" target="_blank"><font color="#0645ad">Roman</font></a> <a title="Knight" href="../wiki/Knight" target="_blank"><font color="#0645ad">knight</font></a>, a Vocontian, who was slain by the stupid <a title="Roman emperor" href="../wiki/Roman_emperor" target="_blank"><font color="#0645ad">emperor</font></a> <a title="Claudius" href="../wiki/Claudius" target="_blank"><font color="#0645ad">Claudius</font></a>, merely because he wore it in his breast when a lawsuit was pending."</dd>
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<p>Huddleston's edition of Toland gives some very ingenious conjectures
on the subject of this very enigmatical Druids' egg. The amulets of
glass and stone, which are still preserved and used with implicit faith
in many parts of <a title="Gàidhealteachd" href="../wiki/G%C3%A0idhealteachd" target="_blank"><font color="#0645ad">Scottish Gaeldom</font></a>,
and are conveyed, for the cure of diseases to a great distance, seem to
have their origin in this bauble of ancient priestcraft.</p>
<div>Alles beste,</div>
~Mike von Tampadorf<br><br>----------<br><br>From: Hannelore Hinz <a href="mailto:hannehinz@t-online.de" target="_blank"><hannehinz@t-online.de></a><br>
Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2011.05.25 (03) [EN]<br>
<br>
Hallo Lowlanners,<br>
<br>
dit "Thema" seggt mi bannig tau.<br>
<br>
<b>Hauhnergloben</b> m. Aberglaube: <i>Hauhnergloben gifft dat jo
väl; bliwt mi mit jugen Häunerglowen von den Liew; dat is
Hauhnergloben, wo dei Hahn nicks von (af) weit.<br>
</i>Hauhnerkathoolsch: verrückt<br>
Höhnergloven, Bigloven (Bi-gloven)<br>
unglöwsch: ungläubig<br>
"Von allerhand Slag Lüd' " <i>höhnerkatholsch</i><br>
Lit.: Wossidlo/Teuchert<br>
<br>
Erna Taege-Röhmisch 12.01.1909 - 4.05.1998 Templin. <br>
<b>Höner </b>(Mehrz.): Hühner <br>
Hönergloben (m.) : Aberglaube<br>
<br>
PLATTDEUTSCHES WÖRTERVERZEICHNIS Christa Prowatke<br>
<b>Häuhnergloben </b>- unglaubwürdig, Unsinn<br>
<br>
<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberglaube" target="_blank">http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberglaube</a><br>
<br>
<b>Reitet »Wode« noch heute? <br>
</b><i>Zum Wandel bäuerlicher Denkmuster in der Gegenwart oder: ein
Blick hinter die Kulissen heutigen anscheinenden Aberglaubens.<br>
</i>Siehe Literatur:<br>
<b>Von Brautkrone bis Erntekranz <br>
</b><i>Jahres- und Lebensbräuche in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern<br>
Ein Handbuch <br>
</i>Heike Müns<br>
HINSTORFF ISBN 3-356-00913-3<br>
<br>
Un nu noch dit:<br>
FEATURE ZUM 13. FEBRUAR KEIN PFEIFEN UND KEIN ESSEN AUF DER ...<br>
<b>Schwerin (ddp-nrd) Die 30 Theaterleute der niederdeutschen
Fritz-Reuter-Bühne Schwerin sind<br>
abergläubisch - wie viele Kollegen. <br>
</b>Damit ihnen das Glück treu bleibt, halten sie sich auch auf
ihrer aktuellen Tournee an eine Reihe <br>
ungeschriebener Regeln, die nicht nur am Freitag dem 13. gelten, der
angeblich Unglück und Pech bringt.<br>
So werden während der Proben auf den Bühnen keine Mäntel oder Hüte
getragen, wenn es das Stück<br>
nicht zwingend erfordert. Ebenso ist es tabu, unter einer Leiter
hindurchzugehen. Schauspieler Andreas A., der derzeit mit dem nd.
Ensemble zwischen Ostsee und Mitteldeutschland unterwegs ist, zählt
zu den bekanntesten Ritualen den Brauch, vor Premieren oder anderen
wichtigen Vorstellungen das Wort «Glück» nicht in den Mund zu
nehmen. Stattdessen werde Toi, Toi, Toi gesagt und dabei ein
dreimaliges Spucken über die linke Schulter angedeutet, erzählt der
Mime während der Fahrt im Reisebus über die Autobahn.<br>
«Höhnergloven» (Hühnerglauben) sage man ander Küste dazu.<br>
<br>
<b>Aberglaube </b>"in religiöser Scheu und in magischem Denken
wurzelnder Glaube, Irrglaube":<br>
Die Zusammensetzung <i>(mhd.</i> abergloube) enthält als ersten
Bestandteil das unter <i>aber </i>behandelte<br>
Wort im Sinne von "verkehrt" (vgl. <i>Aberwitz.</i>) Abl.: <b>abergläubisch
</b>(16.Jh.).<br>
<b>Aberwitz: </b>Das heute nur noch selten gebrauchte Wort für
"Wahnwitz, Unverstand" (<i>mhd.</i> aberwitze) <br>
enthält als ersten Bestandteil das unter <i>aber </i>behandelte
Wort im Sinne von"verkehrt" (vgl. <i>Aberglaube</i>). Abl. <b>aberwitzig
</b>"verrückt, wahnwitzug" (15.Jh.).<br>
DUDEN 7 Etymologie der deutschen Sprache<br>
<br>
Hartlich Gräuten.<br>
Hanne<br>
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