Headache: A stalk of crossword tied to the head with a red scarf
Lack of Virility: Agrimony boiled in milk
Shingles: A potion made of 15 types of bark
Spider bite: Fried and crushed black smails.
15 January
On This Day
In 1759 the British Museum first opened
East Coker
In this small village lies buried the American born poet T. S. Eliot. He was born in St Louis, Missouri, came to study at Oxford in 1911 and decided to stay. Eliot could trace his ancestors back to this village until Andrew Eliot sailed for New England in the mid 1600’s where he settled in Salem and was a juror on the famous witch trials.
Also buried in the church yard in William Dampier (1662 to 1715) who circumnavigated the world on three occasions. He was the first Englishman to set foot in Australia. The notes he took on various trips relating to the local flora and fauna influenced Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution and is also said to have provided inspiration for Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels
Today is St. Ide’s day who was a female Irish saint.