a lot of stationery

A little known magic gift among the Irish and Scottish peoples was that of horse-whispering or charming, although this art is also known to the gipsies of Europe and in South America.

So was he brought forth unto the green, before the Chappell within the Tower, and his head laide downe upon a long logge of timber, and there strucke off, and afterward his body with the head, was enterred at Windsor, beside the body of King Edward.

a sombre situation