Wīgle

Nach dem Altenglischen Wörterbuch:

(wigle?), es;

wīgle

n. Divination, heathen practice :-- Wīglum cere-monias (the passage is: Ad tortas simulacrorum ceremonias, Ald. 41), Anglia xiii. 33, 162. [Þurh Merlines wiȝel (craft, 2nd MS. ), Laym. 19250. He (devil) maked be unbilefulle man to leven swilcne wigeles, swo ich ar embe spac, Rel. Ant. i. 131, 27. His (the devil's) wiȝeles and his wrenches, A. R. 300, 5. Wieles, 92, 21: Fragm. Phlps. 8, 54. Wiheles, Marh. 13, 9.]

Verwandte Wörter: steor-wigle; wīglere. wigle