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Elfshot - Wikipedia
Elfshot or elf-shot is a medical condition described in the Anglo-Saxon medical text Wið færstice that may have been believed to be caused by elves shooting ...
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Has anyone out there heard of elf-shot? : r/faeries - Reddit
It is where elves shoot invisible arrows that inflict cattle or humans. The arrows cause shooting pains and can result in arthritis and muscle cramps.
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elf-shot, n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English Dictionary
Elf-shot or elf-shotten, a disease in horned cattle, concomitants of which are sluggishness and loss of appetite. The original of the name seems to have ...
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elf-shot
ˈelf-shot [f. elf n.1 + shot.] 1. ‘Disease, supposed to be produced by the immediate agency of evil spirits’ (Jam.).[c 1000 Ags. Leechd. III. 54 Ylfa ᵹescot.] 1681 Glanvill Sadducismus (1726) 398 The sickness of William Black was an Elf-shot. 1841 Borrow Zincali (1843) I. i. viii. 148 Shepherds and ...
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What is Elfshot?
The tiny stone arrowheads were made by elves or fairies who had been out shooting the cattle. Stone arrowheads were called Elfshot or Fairie Darts or Elf ...
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Elf Shot – 5th Edition SRD
You pretend to shoot an arrow with a tiny bow. Make a ranged spell attack against a creature within range. On a hit, the target creature stumbles ...
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elf-shoot
ˈelf-shoot, v. north. dial. [f. elf + shoot (after elf-shot n.).] trans. ‘To shoot, as the vulgar suppose, with an elf-arrow.’ (Jam.)a 1758 Ramsay Poems (1800) II. 66 Nine braw nowt were smoor'd, Three elf-shot were. 1778 Phil. Surv. S. Irel. 281 When these animals are seized with a certain disorder...
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elf-shot | British Fairies
Roughly speaking, there are two main ways in which the fairies make humans sick. One is to shoot us with arrows (elf-shot), which leaves the victim elf-struck ( ...
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ELF-SHOT Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
noun : elf arrow elf-shot 2 of 2 adjective " Scottish : afflicted with a disease supposed to result from a wound by an elf arrow.
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Elf-Shot: Old English Medicine and Magical Remedies - Icy Sedgwick
The remedy involves removing the eyes of a raven before it's dead and placing them onto the neck of the sufferer. Here, the body is believed to ...
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Hunting for Elf Shot | The Daily Gargle - WordPress.com
It names the flints as the arrows of Elves, invisible creatures who follow people around and at any moment fire an arrow at them, causing severe pain.
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elf-shot, adj. meanings, etymology and more
Of a person or animal: affected by illness or some other affliction believed to be due to supernatural causes.
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Elves in Middle-earth
Elves were directly dangerous, too: the medical condition "elf-shot", described in the spell Gif hors ofscoten sie, "if a horse is elf-shot", meaning some Tolkien takes "elf-shot" as a hint to make his elves skilful in archery.
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elf
▪ I. elf, n.1 (ɛlf) Forms: 1 ælf, ylf (app. recorded only in pl. ylfe), 3 alve, 5 alfe, 5–7 elfe, 4– elf. pl. elves: 1 ylfe, 3 alven, 6–7 elfes, Sc. elvis, 8 elfs, 6– elves. See also elven, auf, oaf1. [OE. ælf str. masc. = OHG. alp (MHG., mod.G. alp nightmare, ON. álfr (Da. alf) elf:—OTeut. *alƀo-z;...
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Seelie
Briggs equated the Unseelie Court with the Sluagh (who abducted travelers at night and fired elf-shot) as well as the shellycoat, nuckelavee, redcaps,
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