From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Against a Wen
Against a Wen
Against a Wen is an Old English metrical charm and med-
ical text found in the Lacnunga. It appears to describe a
References
remedy for ridding oneself of a wen, which is an Old Eng- Elliott Van Kirk Dobbie, The Anglo-Saxon Minor Poems, vol.
lish term for a cyst or skin blemish. As cysts are common- VI of The Anglo-Saxon Poetic Record, Columbia Universi-
ly mobile masses on the skin, the charm is written to the ty Press, New York, l942. ISBN: 0231087705/0-231-08770-5
wen itself, asking it to leave. The charm prescribes meth-
ods for curing the blemish, and describes it as it gradually
shrinks until it disappears.
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