Eleanour Sinclair Rohde Quotes
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Time when grown men believed in elves and goblins as naturally as they believed in trees.
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If a radish be eaten raw after fasting all day, no woman’s chatter the next day can annoy?
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Our Saxon ancestors may have been a rude and hardy race, but they did not live in an age of materialism as we do.
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Red was the colour sacred to Thor and it was also the colour abhorred not only by witches in particular but by all the powers of darkness and evil.
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No bought potpourri is so pleasant as that made from ones own garden, for the petals of the flowers one has gathered at home hold the sunshine and memories of summer, and of past summers only the sunny days should be remembered.
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There is no mention of mistletoe as a sacred herb.
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Anglo-Saxons created a vernacular literature to which the continental nations at that time could show no parallel.
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Our ancestors were an uncommonly hardy race, for the majority of the remedies would kill any of us modern weaklings, even if in robust health when they were administered.