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- | The idea of putting an insect inside a hollow object, like an apple, blown egg, gourd, ring, etc., to make it move mysteriously was recorded in a late fifteenth century notebook by Thomas Betson, a monk at Syon Abby in Middlesex. This notebook is at St. John's College, Cambridge, MS. E.6, according to Richard Kieckhefer in //Magic in the Middle Ages//, 1989, p. 91. Betson used a beetle in a hollowed apple. In // | + | The idea of putting an insect inside a hollow object, like an apple, blown egg, gourd, ring, etc., to make it move mysteriously was recorded in a late fifteenth century notebook by Thomas Betson, a monk at Syon Abby in Middlesex. This notebook is at St. John's College, Cambridge, MS. E.6, according to Richard Kieckhefer in // |
An early published source of the same apple/ | An early published source of the same apple/ |