I was reading up about the Lee Penny, belonging to the Lockharts of Lee,
which I have had the fortune to hold in my hand. Simon Lockhart of Lee
carried Robert I's heart to Spain in 1329 and returned with the Lee Penny,
actually a semi precious blood-red stone subsequently set in an Edward IV
groat; it is said to have healing powers, and was the subject of Walter
Scott's The Talisman.
Anyway, yesterday I came across an article which mentioned one Lady Baird
of Saughtonhall, near Edinburgh, who recovered from the effects of the
bite of a mad dog by drinking water into which the Lee Penny had been
immersed. She also bathed the affected parts in it, "...even though prior
to doing so she had already shown some of the distressing symptoms of
hydrophobia..."
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