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单词 witch knot
释义 witch knot
1. a. A tangled knot of hair supposed to be made by witches: = elf-lock.
1598Drayton Heroic. Ep., El. Cobham 112 O that I were a Witch..! I would..knit whole ropes of witchknots in her hayre.17..Willie's Lady xxxiv. in Child Ballads I. 87 Oh wha has loosed the nine witch knots That was amo that ladie's locks?
b. A knot tied for the purpose of making or averting a spell.
1884A. Lang in M. Hunt Grimm's Household Tales I. p. xlvi, All over the world savages..tie ‘witch-knots’.1947A. Runeberg tr. E. H. Meyer in Witches & Demons in West-European Folk Belief vii. 95 Witches..twist twigs into witchknots, and leave the fairy rings in the grass after their dances.1957E. E. Evans Irish Folk Ways xxi. 304 The cow-doctor uses sympathetic magic..by drawing apart over the animal's back the loose ends of a string tied in a complicated witch-knot or ‘bat’,..which comes undone when pulled.
2. A bushy tuft of twigs on a tree: = witches' besom (see witch n.2 5 c).
1806J. Grahame Birds Scot. 51 The simple boy..Mistakes the witch-knots for the cushat's nest.1880F. P. Pascoe Zool. Classif. (ed. 2) 96 The ‘witch-knot’ found on the birch, and resembling a great mass of twigs like a bird's nest, is an abnormal growth..caused by Phytopti.
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