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Updated: May 22, 2025
Then six sachems rose, casting off their black-and-white blankets, and each in turn planted branches of yellow willow, green willow, red osier, samphire, witch-hazel, spice-bush, and silver birch along the edge of the silent throng of savages. "Until the night-sun comes be these your barriers, O Iroquois!" they chanted.
And it was simply amazing what those four things could do when applied to the naturally healthy constitutions of the blacks. He cured a bowed tendon with witch-hazel and adhesive plaster in three or four days. A white man would have gone to a hospital for weeks. There were two common complaints.
In the foreground were blue Raspberry-stems, yet bearing greenish leaves, pale-yellow Witch-Hazel, almost leafless, purple Viburnum-berries, the silky cocoons of the Milkweed, and, amid the underbrush, a few lingering Asters and Golden-Rods, Ferns still green, and Maidenhair bleached white.
The landlord at Ilium endeavored to persuade Philip to hire the services of a witch-hazel professor of that region, who could walk over the land with his wand and tell him infallibly whether it contained coal, and exactly where the strata ran. But Philip preferred to trust to his own study of the country, and his knowledge of the geological formation.
As Gay passed rapidly down the Haunt's Walk a rustle in the witch-hazel bushes accompanied him, stopping instantly when he stopped, and beginning again when he moved, as though something, crouching there, listened in breathless suspense for the fall of his footsteps. At the Poplar Spring the sound grew so distinct that he hastened in the direction of it, calling in an impatient voice, "Blossom!
Joseph, senior, first made a circle, twelve or fourteen feet in diameter: `This circle, said he, `contains the treasure. He then stuck in the ground a row of witch-hazel sticks around the said circle, for the purpose of keeping off the evil spirits. Within this circle he made another, of about eight or ten feet in diameter.
A green blanket was spread for her and she sat down under the branch of witch-hazel. "The barrier is closed!" she said. "Kindle your coals from Onondaga, O you Keepers of the Central Fire!" An aged sachem arose, and, lifting his withered arm, swept it eastward. "The hearth is cleansed," he said, feebly. "Brothers, attend! She-who-runs is coming. Listen!"
Yes," she said; "but oh! it's the kind that offers witch-hazel and hot-water bottles to the best beloved! Mr. Hamil, why can't we flirt comfortably like sensibly frivolous people!" "I wish we could, Cecile." "I wish so, too, Garret. No, that's too formal Garry! There, that ends our chances!" "You're the jolliest family I ever knew," he said.
The singular habit of the witch-hazel, whose blossoms open as the leaves fall, may be presumed to be familiar to all readers; and hardly less curious is the freak of the chestnut, which, almost if not quite alone among our amentaceous trees, does not put on its splendid coronation robes till late in June, and is frequently at the height of its magnificence in mid-July.
Severance, however, and as usual, rose to the occasion and produced a bottle of witch-hazel from the bathroom with which she insisted on bathing the bump till Ted remarked disgruntledly that he smelt like a hospital.
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