leech-wives

Updated: May 1, 2025

Cunning old leech-wives treated the French lady with tonics, mugwort, and bogbean, and good wine enow, But, like David of old, she got no heat; and before Yule-tide came, she had prayed herself safely out of this world, and into the world to come. And Torfrida's heart was the more light when she saw her go. She was absorbed utterly in Hereward and his plots.

Charles Kingsley - Hereward, the Last of the English