Our reptiles and batrachians; a plain and easy account of the lizards, snakes, newts, toads, frogs and tortoises indigenous to Great Britain . nd stuck a hazelwand in the centre of her spiral. The countrypeople, says Dr. Borlase, have a persuasion that thesnakes here breathing upon a hazel wand produce astone ring of blue colour, in which there appears theyellow figure of a snake, and that beasts bit and en-venomed, being given some water to drink whereinthis stone has been infused, will perfectly recover ofthe poison. We will leave Pliny alonej with his ovum an-guinum, and the various other a
Our reptiles and batrachians; a plain and easy account of the lizards, snakes, newts, toads, frogs and tortoises indigenous to Great Britain . nd stuck a hazelwand in the centre of her spiral. The countrypeople, says Dr. Borlase, have a persuasion that thesnakes here breathing upon a hazel wand produce astone ring of blue colour, in which there appears theyellow figure of a snake, and that beasts bit and en-venomed, being given some water to drink whereinthis stone has been infused, will perfectly recover ofthe poison. We will leave Pliny alonej with his ovum an-guinum, and the various other authors who havereferred to these amulets, and proceed to matters offact rather than of poetry and romance, concludingthis chapter with a copy of the figures of snake- ?Stukeleys Abury, p. 44. t Brandes Popular Antiquities, iii., p. 37L | Nat. Hist., lib. xxix., c. 12. 22 OUR REPTILES. stones given by Pennant in his British Zoology,and who says of them—Our modern Druidesses seemnot to have so exalted an opinion of their powers,using them only to assist children in cutting theirteeth, or to cure the chincough, or to drive awayan A ODER-STONES. THE COMMON LIZARD.
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