Lexicographical Neighbors of Forspoken
Literary usage of Forspoken
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Brand's Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Faiths and Folklore; a by John Brand (1905)
"King James enumerates ' Such kinde of charmes as commonly daft wives use for
healing forspoken goods" (by goods he means here ..."
2. The Orkneys and Shetland: Their Past and Present State by John R. Tudor (1883)
"... Orkney ; (3) a person is said to be forspoken when any sudden mischance happens
on the back of a series of good fortune, or when a child, ..."
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