LL-L "Etymology" 2011.05.26 (04) [DE-EN-NDS]

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From: Michael Keach mike.keach at gmail.com
Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2011.05.26 (02) [EN]

Re: Adder Stones

Ron,
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.

>From an online source:

*Adder stone* is a type of stone, usually glassy, with a naturally-occurring
hole through it[*citation needed <../wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed>*]. Such
stones have been discovered by archaeologists <../wiki/Archaeology> in both
Britain <../wiki/Great_Britain> and Egypt <../wiki/Egypt>.

In Britain they are also called *hag stones*, *witch stones*, *serpent's
eggs*, *snake's eggs*, or *glain neidyr* in Wales <../wiki/Wales>, *milpreve
* in Cornwall <../wiki/Cornwall>, *adderstanes* in the south of
Scotland<../wiki/Scotland>and
*Gloine nan Druidh* ("Druids' glass" in Scottish
Gaelic<../wiki/Scottish_Gaelic>)
in the north. In Egypt they are called *aggry* or *aggri*.

Adder stones were believed to have magical
<../wiki/Magic_%28paranormal%29>powers such as protection against eye
diseases or evil charms, preventing
nightmares <../wiki/Nightmare>, curing whooping cough <../wiki/Pertussis>,
and of course recovery from snakebite <../wiki/Snakebite>. According to
popular conception, a true adder stone will float in water.

Two traditions exist as to the origins of adder stones. One holds that the
stones are the hardened saliva <../wiki/Saliva> of large numbers of
serpents<../wiki/Snake>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.[1]<html/compose/static_files/blank_quirks.html#cite_note-Roud-0>

Adder stone was in high esteem amongst the Druids <../wiki/Druid>. It was
one of their distinguishing badges, and was accounted to possess the most
extraordinary virtues. There is a passage in Pliny <../wiki/Pliny_the_Elder>’s
*Natural History <../wiki/Natural_History_%28Pliny%29>*, book xix, minutely
describing the nature and the properties of this amulet. The following is a
translation of it:
"There is a sort of egg <../wiki/Egg_%28biology%29> in great repute among
the Gauls <../wiki/Gauls>, of which the Greek
writers<../wiki/Greek_literature>have made no mention. A vast number
of
serpents <../wiki/Snake> are twisted together in summer, and coiled up in an
artificial knot by their saliva <../wiki/Saliva> 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 horseback <../wiki/Horseback>; for
the serpents will pursue him until prevented by intervening water. This egg,
though bound in gold <../wiki/Gold> 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 moon <../wiki/Moon>. I have seen that
egg as large and as round as a common sized apple <../wiki/Apple>, in a
chequered cartilaginous <../wiki/Cartilage> 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
Roman<../wiki/Ancient_Rome>
knight <../wiki/Knight>, a Vocontian, who was slain by the stupid
emperor<../wiki/Roman_emperor>
Claudius <../wiki/Claudius>, merely because he wore it in his breast when a
lawsuit was pending."

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 Scottish Gaeldom <../wiki/G%C3%A0idhealteachd>, and are conveyed, for the
cure of diseases to a great distance, seem to have their origin in this
bauble of ancient priestcraft.
Alles beste,
~Mike von Tampadorf

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From: Hannelore Hinz <hannehinz at t-online.de> <hannehinz at t-online.de>
Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2011.05.25 (03) [EN]

Hallo Lowlanners,

dit "Thema" seggt mi bannig tau.

*Hauhnergloben* m. Aberglaube: *Hauhnergloben gifft dat jo väl; bliwt mi mit
jugen Häunerglowen von den Liew; dat is Hauhnergloben, wo dei Hahn nicks von
(af) weit.
*Hauhnerkathoolsch: verrückt
Höhnergloven, Bigloven (Bi-gloven)
unglöwsch: ungläubig
"Von allerhand Slag Lüd' " *höhnerkatholsch*
Lit.: Wossidlo/Teuchert

Erna Taege-Röhmisch 12.01.1909 - 4.05.1998 Templin.
*Höner *(Mehrz.): Hühner
Hönergloben (m.) : Aberglaube

PLATTDEUTSCHES WÖRTERVERZEICHNIS Christa Prowatke
*Häuhnergloben *- unglaubwürdig, Unsinn

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberglaube

*Reitet »Wode« noch heute?
**Zum Wandel bäuerlicher Denkmuster in der Gegenwart oder: ein Blick hinter
die Kulissen heutigen anscheinenden Aberglaubens.
*Siehe Literatur:
*Von Brautkrone bis Erntekranz
**Jahres- und Lebensbräuche in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Ein Handbuch
*Heike Müns
HINSTORFF ISBN 3-356-00913-3

Un nu noch dit:
FEATURE ZUM 13. FEBRUAR KEIN PFEIFEN UND KEIN ESSEN AUF DER ...
*Schwerin (ddp-nrd) Die 30 Theaterleute der niederdeutschen
Fritz-Reuter-Bühne Schwerin sind
abergläubisch - wie viele Kollegen.
*Damit ihnen das Glück treu bleibt, halten sie sich auch auf ihrer aktuellen
Tournee an eine Reihe
ungeschriebener Regeln, die nicht nur am Freitag dem 13. gelten, der
angeblich Unglück und Pech bringt.
So werden während der Proben auf den Bühnen keine Mäntel oder Hüte getragen,
wenn es das Stück
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.
«Höhnergloven» (Hühnerglauben) sage man ander Küste dazu.

*Aberglaube *"in religiöser Scheu und in  magischem Denken wurzelnder
Glaube, Irrglaube":
Die Zusammensetzung *(mhd.* abergloube) enthält als ersten Bestandteil das
unter *aber *behandelte
Wort im Sinne von "verkehrt" (vgl. *Aberwitz.*) Abl.: *abergläubisch *
(16.Jh.).
*Aberwitz: *Das heute nur noch selten gebrauchte Wort für "Wahnwitz,
Unverstand" (*mhd.* aberwitze)
enthält als ersten Bestandteil das unter *aber *behandelte Wort im Sinne
von"verkehrt" (vgl. *Aberglaube*). Abl. *aberwitzig *"verrückt, wahnwitzug"
(15.Jh.).
DUDEN 7 Etymologie der deutschen Sprache

Hartlich Gräuten.
Hanne

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