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A charm my nan said
Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2021 10:30 pm
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.
Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2021 9:50 am
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.
Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2021 3:00 pm
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.