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Staca

Partie du discours: an; Mots liés: 7, Th. i. 226, 12. Ðǽr his bróðor heáfod stód on stacan gefæstnod, Homl. Skt. ii. 26, 166. Wrí ðysne circul on ánum mealan stán on uppan ðam stacan, Lchdm. i. 395, 3-5. Mon hæfde ða burg mid stacum gemearcod, wulfas átugan ða stacan up, Ors. 5, 5, Swt. 226, 17-19. Álege ðone man upweard, dríf .ii. stacan æt ðám eaxlum, Lchdm. ii. 342, 5. ¶ In the following passages there seems to be a reference to the method of witchcraft, that consisted in thrusting a pin or the like into the figure of a person, whom it was desired to injure. On this practice, see

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m. A stake:--Nygon fét of ðam stacan tó ðære mearce, L. Ath. iinter alia, Brand's Antiquities, ed. Hazlitt, vol. iii. p65, Grmm. D. M. 1045, and the Glossary to Thorpe's edition of the Early Laws, s. si quis acus in homine aliquo defixerit. ...Et si homo ex illa punctura mortuus sit, L. Ecg. P. iO. Frs. stac[e].] staca

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