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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 ... Oxford English Dictionary
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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... Oxford English Dictionary
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Elfshot
The name derives from the folklore belief that the arrows fell from the sky, and were used by the elves to kill cattle and inflict elf-shot on human beings The Old English spell , "if a horse is elf-shot," meaning some kind of internal injury, may be an allusion to the magical elf-shot. wikipedia.org
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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. wikipedia.org
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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;... Oxford English Dictionary
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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, wikipedia.org
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For Water-Elf Disease
Water-Elf Disease" () is an Anglo-Saxon metrical charm that was intended for use in curing the "water-elf disease," which was a disease supposedly caused by elf-shot wikipedia.org
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fairy
fairy, n. and a. (ˈfɛərɪ) Forms: 4 feir-, feyr-i(e, -ye, (5 fery, 6 feirie), 4–5 fai-, fayerie, -ye, (4 fayryȝe), 4–6 fair-, fayr-é, -ey, -ie, -y(e, (6 fayere, 6–7 pharie, 7 farie, phair-, pherie), 4– fairy; also faerie, -y. [a. OF. faerie, faierie (mod.F. féerie), f. OF. fae (mod.F. fée) fay n.2] A... Oxford English Dictionary
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Fairy riding
It can be compared to elf-shot, where fairies were thought to have shot animals. References marcachd-shìth Scottish folklore Fairies wikipedia.org
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آر سي إيه 1802
كان الكثير من المعالجات الدقيقة تقوم على معالج 1802 ومن بينها COMX-35 وCOSMAC ELF (1976 وCOSMAC VIP وNetronics ELF II وQUEST SuperELF وFinnish Telmac 1800 (1980 text on RCA 1802 assembler) High resolution die shot Minor parts of this article were originally based on material from the قاموس الحوسبة المجاني wikipedia.org
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shot
▪ I. shot, n.1 (ʃɒt) Forms: 1 sc(e)ot, ᵹesc(e)ot, 2, 4–7 schot, 3 scott, 4–7 schott, shotte, (5 shet), 5–6 schotte, 5–7, (8) shott, (6 shutt, 6–7 shote), 5– shot. [OE. sc(e)ot, ᵹesc(e)ot neut. (the prefix, as usual in ns., fell away—in this instance not surviving beyond OE.—so that the forms with an... Oxford English Dictionary
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A Folk Tale
Bournonville must have had the folk songs Elveskud (The Elf-shot) and Elvehøj (The Elves' Hill) in mind when he has Junker Ove linger at the hill after wikipedia.org
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Island of Stroma
century inhabitants of the island collected the prehistoric stone arrowheads that they found on the western side of the island, believing them to be "elf-shot They believed that if they possessed an "elf-shot" they would be granted protection for themselves and their cattle from any harm caused by the fairies wikipedia.org
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List of weapons and armour in Middle-earth
Tolkien Encyclopedia, the weapon may owe something to the tradition of the "elf-shot" found in Old English medical texts and charms, where it denotes illnesses wikipedia.org
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Medieval medicine of Western Europe
Another example of the fusion of different medicinal theories is the combination of Christian and pre-Christian ideas about elf-shot (elf- or fairy-caused wikipedia.org
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