the informed stars

Headaches, as well as the unease consequent upon bad dreams, can be relieved by making a fronded stick with a rudimentary face (butun); the pain, or the inauspiciousness, is transferred to this stick, which is left in the forest, […]

Whilst the birds billing, / Each one with his dilling.

Proud once and princely was the mansion, ere a succession of spendthrifts waned away its splendour.