king's evil
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of king's evil
1350–1400; Middle English kynges evel
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The heart of a toad, suspended by a blue ribbon round the neck, will cure the king's evil.
From The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales by James Grant
In the postscript he adds an account of a well, which by washing, wrought a cure on a person deep in the king’s evil.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Isaac Disraeli
As the French language does not contain any such word as estroilles, there can be no doubt that it stands for old French escroilles, or the king's evil.
From Literary Blunders by Henry Benjamin Wheatley
The lady was Queen Anne, to whom, in compliance with a superstition just dying a natural death, he had been taken by his mother to be touched for the king's evil.
From Samuel Johnson by Sir Leslie Stephen
Philip de Comines states, that the king always confessed before the cure of the king's evil.
From Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing by George Barton Cutten
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