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when he says:--
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In Devonshire, to this day, all magical or supernatural dealings go under the common name of wishtness. Can this have any reference to Woden's name 'Wyse?' Mr. Hunt, however, acknowledges that
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Mr. Kemble's idea is supported by the fact that 'there are _Wishanger_ (Wisehanger, or Woden's Meadow,) one about four miles south-west of Wanborough, in Surrey, and another near Gloucester.' He acknowledges, likewise, on the authority of Jabez Allies, that there is a _Wishmoor_, which may have such an origin, in Ledstone, Delamere, Worcestershire. Mr. Hunt thinks that the word
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is intimately
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Polwhele, in his
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Wishful Swain of Devon, says it is
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and he adds,--
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There is something sublime in this impersonation of _wishness_. It is not at all improbable that both these etymologies point to a common origin. The deeds of the spectre huntsman and the furious host, a
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are not calculated to impress on the human imagination anything repugnant to the