Irish Law of Bloodlying 6th cen.
To Go A Howling
32. There are twelve women in the territory whom the rule of nursing in Irish Law excludes. a woman who turns back the streams of war, a ruler entitled to hostages, one who is abundant in miracles, a woman satirist, a woman wright, a woman recovered by a leech of the territory, a sharp tongued virago, a vagrant woman, a werewolf in wolfs shape, an idiot, a lunatic. It is by a fee to their kin these women are to be compensated: they are not brought away (to be nursed)
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