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Updated: May 22, 2025
Most of the household applications for wounds or bruises, such as arnica, camphor, witch-hazel, etc., owe their virtues to the five or ten per cent of alcohol they contain, which, by evaporating, cools the wound and relieves inflammation, kills germs and so acts as an antiseptic, and cleans the wound and the skin around it very thoroughly and effectively.
And anyway," I said, "I don't know that I care about fighting with anybody who can make eels wear caps and mules red trousers. Wait a minute and I'll get a clean rag and some witch-hazel for your leg."
The birches are in the main bare but the young wood at the very tops, and the tips of sprouts from the stumps of trees that have been cut, still hold leaves whose pale yellow simulates flowers, as if the trees, like the witch-hazel, had decided to bloom only at the very last moment, preferring the Indian summer to that which came to us in the full flush of June.
I had expected scolding, rebuke, denial, I had armed myself for a struggle of power, I had resolved to hazard a martyr's doom. Oh, the magic of kindness on a child's heart! a lonely, sensitive, proud, yearning heart like mine! 'Tis the witch-hazel wand that shows where the deep fountain is secretly welling. I was ashamed of the tears that would gather into my eyes.
Two of their companions, kneeling near my mother, were opening chests of linen, and preparing oil, balm, salt and witch-hazel, to dress the wounds, following the example of the druidesses, near whom the car was stationed. At our approach the children ran gaily from the depths of their retreat into the fore-part of the wagon, whence they stretched out their little hands to us.
Aliens residing in England were forbidden the use of this weapon a jealous precaution showing the great importance attached to its possession. The usual length of the bow which was made of yew, witch-hazel, ash, or elm was about six feet; and the arrow, about half that length. Arrows were made of ash, feathered with part of a goose's wing, and barbed with iron or steel.
"How did you get that, lamb?" she said, touching Ken's forehead, illuminated by the lamp's glow. Ken blew out the flame swiftly, and faced his sister in a room lit only by the faint, dusky reflection of moonlight without. "Oh, I whacked up against something this afternoon," he said. "I'll put some witch-hazel on it, if you like."
Then I found myself in the thick of a copse of witch-hazel up and down the stems of which the bees were wildly buzzing. There was no dew left on the bushes, so it was not that they were after; on looking more closely I saw that they were crawling down the stems to the little burrs containing the seed of last fall's flowering.
These bleached-out leaves will often remain until fairly pushed off by the opening buds of another year. Of the hazelnut or filbert, I know nothing from the tree side, but I cannot avoid mentioning another botanically unrelated so-called hazel the witch-hazel. This small tree is known to most of us only as giving name to a certain soothing extract.
I have a neighbor who dug down through tough strata of clay to a spring pointed out by a witch-hazel rod in the hands of a seventh son's seventh son, and the water is the sweeter to him for the wonder that is mixed with it. After all, it seems that our scientific gas, be it never so brilliant, is not equal to the dingy old Aladdin's lamp.
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