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34. As late as about 25 years ago, it happened to me in
Himmerland (district, of Aalborg), that I could not persuade
a man to sell me a flint axe because it had been lying on the
hearth of the farm from time immemorial, and in all that time
the lightning had not once struck the farm. [Mr Dreyer, district
physician, in Frem, May 3, 1908, No. 31.]
35. Flint axes have within living memory been regarded
as thunderstones; an instance is remembered in which such
an axe was kept behind the wainscot as a protection against
lightning. Giver, in the district of Aalborg. [Communicated
there in 1909.]
35 a. Flint axes were looked upon as thunderstones ; where
they were kept the lightning did not strike. Veggerby, in
the district of Aalborg. [Communicated in 1910 by Mr Mark,
teacher, of Oster Hornum (D.F.S.).]
36. I have borrowed (mark the word) an axe of striking
beauty and utility, of a woman in Hammershby (district of
Viborg); it is of red flint, with some veins running through
it, well fashioned and polished towards the sharp end; it is over
four inches wide, and has once been nine inches long, being
nearly pointed towards the end ; but its properties are still more
remarkable; for a piece of this stone finely pounded and taken
in cold water is an unfailing remedy against persistent colic, so
the woman who owns it told me. She has tried it on her
husband, whom I saw, a man who for twelve months had been
a victim to such painful attacks that, though only about
thirty years old, he could not go out to work, but lay at home
under the care of his poor wife, looking like death itself. In
fact, I never thought he could recover. His wife, who saw that
all other remedies were useless, remembered the stone she had
in her chest, which she firmly believed to be a heaven-fallen
thunderstone. As having come from heaven, she believed it
must possess not only the generally recognized power of
averting the thunder from the house where it was kept, but
also other miraculous properties (rather like the old crone
who had heard from the clergyman that caraway cured all
diseases); she tried pounding a piece of the flint stone about
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34. As late as about 25 years ago, it happened to me in
Himmerland (district, of Aalborg), that I could not persuade
a man to sell me a flint axe because it had been lying on the
hearth of the farm from time immemorial, and in all that time
the lightning had not once struck the farm. [Mr Dreyer, district
physician, in Frem, May 3, 1908, No. 31.]
35. Flint axes have within living memory been regarded
as thunderstones; an instance is remembered in which such
an axe was kept behind the wainscot as a protection against
lightning. Giver, in the district of Aalborg. [Communicated
there in 1909.]
35 a. Flint axes were looked upon as thunderstones ; where
they were kept the lightning did not strike. Veggerby, in
the district of Aalborg. [Communicated in 1910 by Mr Mark,
teacher, of Oster Hornum (D.F.S.).]
36. I have borrowed (mark the word) an axe of striking
beauty and utility, of a woman in Hammershby (district of
Viborg); it is of red flint, with some veins running through
it, well fashioned and polished towards the sharp end; it is over
four inches wide, and has once been nine inches long, being
nearly pointed towards the end ; but its properties are still more
remarkable; for a piece of this stone finely pounded and taken
in cold water is an unfailing remedy against persistent colic, so
the woman who owns it told me. She has tried it on her
husband, whom I saw, a man who for twelve months had been
a victim to such painful attacks that, though only about
thirty years old, he could not go out to work, but lay at home
under the care of his poor wife, looking like death itself. In
fact, I never thought he could recover. His wife, who saw that
all other remedies were useless, remembered the stone she had
in her chest, which she firmly believed to be a heaven-fallen
thunderstone. As having come from heaven, she believed it
must possess not only the generally recognized power of
averting the thunder from the house where it was kept, but
also other miraculous properties (rather like the old crone
who had heard from the clergyman that caraway cured all
diseases); she tried pounding a piece of the flint stone about