To derange the veins,[1] to lap up blood-broth,
To eat the substance of the heart,
To burrow into the navel, to bore into the navel's root.
To rack with pain the spinal bone,
To bore through the sides, to lacerate the groin,
To cause the eyes to run with tears, to nip the organs of sight,
To swell beneath the temples
Either of a girl or of a boy.
xxxiii. — The Origin of Scabs.
A brown, scabby crone [v girl, v. lord], the evil mother [v. housefather] of boils,[2]
Gave birth to a scabby son, screeched over an ill-tempered one
With one foot (F. root), with eight heads, upon a scabby bed,
(A son) begotten of a scabby sire
Out of a scabby dam — a mother covered with boils.[3]
She flung her malignant son
Against a human being's skin, at the body (F. body hairs) of a woman's (kapo) son.
