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witch ladder en · NOUN
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of witch's ladder.
Next he tied nine knots in a short length of string, and sprinkled some dead flies into the fire. "Take thou a mandrake [...] Bind the root, with a witch ladder," he held up the knotted string.
1970, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle, published 1984, page xi. 144:The next day I showed the woman the engraving of the witch-ladder in the Folk-Lore Journal. She was astonished, and said, "Why that is la guirlanda delle strege which I described yesterday."
1892, Charles Godfrey Leland, Etruscan Roman Remains in Popular Tradition, page 353:
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