Lexicographical Neighbors of Hairlock
Literary usage of Hairlock
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tales from the Fjeld: A Second Series of Popular Tales, from the Norse of P by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen (1874)
"One single nanny-goat she had who was called hairlock and she never would come
home in time for tea. " Peter and Paul both went out to get her home, ..."
2. Popular Tales and Fictions: Their Migrations and Transformations by William Alexander Clouston (1887)
"Boots sets out to fetch the nanny-goat home—sees her high up on a crag—calls to
her to come home, but hairlock wouldn't. He tells his mother, who says, ..."
3. Index to Fairy Tales, Myths and Legends by Mary Huse Eastman (1915)
"(How they brought hairlock home.) See also Cat and the mouse; Grain of corn; How
the mouse got into his hole; ..."
4. Traditional Ojibwa Religion and Its Historical Changes by Christopher Vecsey (1983)
"The myth also described the animating features of each living person, particularly
when Nanabozho had to locate the heart, or hairlock, or toe of his ..."
5. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1897)
"Finally, I took a thick hairlock from a child's head and held it up to my sight,
when a very large mass of strongly magnified intertwined tubes, ..."
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