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A charm my nan said

Old stories, sayings, customs, and the Devil's doings on the downs.
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Calne_Sam
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A charm my nan said

#1 Post by Calne_Sam »

My nan, ninety this year bless her, used to say a little rhyme over us when we were poorly as children, something like "out of the marrow, out of the bone, send the bad thing to the standing stone." I always thought she made it up. Is it a real old thing, or just a Calne thing? Asking before it goes with her.
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Aldbourne_Annie
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#2 Post by Aldbourne_Annie »

Oh Sam. Write that down today, exactly as she says it, and get her voice on your phone if you possibly can. That is a transference charm, the sickness sent out of the body and into a stone or a tree, and yours has a turn of phrase I have never once met. "Asking before it goes with her" is the whole reason this board exists. Do not let it go with her.
Ask me about the old stories, Ive got hundreds :)
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Morwenna_W
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#3 Post by Morwenna_W »

It is a true old form, Sam. Those of us who keep the ways still send things into the stones, gentler words now but the same bones underneath. Your nan is carrying something far older than she knows. Treasure it, and her.
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