In popular folklore, flint arrowheads from the Stone Age were attributed to the fairies as " elf-shot ".

The Anglo-Saxons themselves would consider him elf-shot ( attacked by elves ), their term for any number of deadly diseases.

They also have copper based blood and are extremely vulnerable to iron ( as it disrupts their finely tuned magnetism-based senses ), and therefore use stone-headed elf-shot for their arrows.

In the United States, the X rating originally referred to a non-trademarked rating that indicated a film contained content that was not suitable for children, such as extreme violence, and thus was for adults only.

The word dijk originally indicated both the trench and the bank.

It was originally planned for a pedestal to indicate the location of the Hill but in the final version was indicated by a compass on the motion sensor.

This site was originally indicated by Professor Donaldson and was discovered definitively by Mr. Charles Newton, after which an expedition was sent by the British government.

* Figurative constant ZERO ( originally ZZZ ... ZZZ, where number of Z's indicated precision ).

This physical isolation of the flower from the traps was originally thought to be an adaptation meant to avoid trapping potential pollinators ; a recent study, however, indicated Drosera species attract distinct types of insects as pollinators and prey, with little overlap.

5 has a completely different ending in the first edition than in the more recent version, and the score to the Fugue sur le nom d ' Alain originally indicated accelerando throughout.

Grunert's air force in July 1940 consisted of 28 Boeing P-26A " Peashooter " fighters ( out of 34 originally shipped to the Philippines in 1937 ), 17 Martin B-10 bombers, 10 Douglas O-46 observation planes ( the newest planes in the department ), five 1920s-vintage Thomas-Morse ZO-19E observation craft ( the " Z " modifier indicated they were unfit for front-line duty and could only be used as trainers ), and three fabric-covered biplanes used for liaison, transport, and courier duties.

" Pelote ", but not " peloton ", also means a little ball ( used for various games ); there is no record that peloton may have originally indicated a single musket ball.

Shah originally indicated that he would take Bennett's psychological groups under his own wing.

In Italy originally the Ginnasio indicated a typology of five-year junior high school ( age 11 to 16 ) and preparing to the three year Liceo Classico ( age 16 to 19 ), a high school focusing on classical studies and humanities.

The phrase " Middle England " is a socio-political and geographical term which originally indicated the central region of England, now almost always referred to as the " Midlands ".

Akhenaten's presence is indicated by items originally inscribed for him ( such as the magical bricks ) and items that were adapted for his use ( such as the coffin and canopic jars ).

Award of the oak leaves originally indicated extraordinary achievement in battle, and was usually reserved for high-ranking officers.

In 1959, Kazuo Enoki proposed that they were probably East Indo-Iranians as some sources indicated that they were originally from Tokharestan, which is known to have been inhabited by Indo-Iranian people in antiquity.

The contents of the meal are not indicated: chapter 9 does not exclude other elements as well that the cup and bread, which are the only ones it mentions, and chapter 10, whether it was originally a separate document or continues immediately the account in chapter 9, mentions no particular elements, not even wine and bread.

Below that, the basic unit of land was the hide, which was originally enough land to support one family but later became a unit of assessment to taxation and indicated the profitability of the land with no necessary relationship to its area.

John Major, then Prime Minister, originally indicated that the government would fund the cost of repairs ( Windsor Castle, like Buckingham Palace, being government-owned ).

The Canadian government filed a $ 350, 000 suit against the U. S., but the intelligence gleaned from the twenty-three messages decoded by Mrs. Friedman indicated de facto U. S. ownership just as the U. S. had originally suspected.

Bonnet derives from the same word in French, where it originally indicated a type of material.

" This quotation was originally in relation to another Miller story, wherein she indicated that trailers found in Iraq had been proven to be mobile weapons labs.

Moscone originally indicated a willingness to reconsider, but more liberal city leaders, including Harvey Milk, lobbied him against the idea, and Moscone ultimately decided not to appoint White.

Although perhaps originally intended to be pronounced, which is indicated in some dictionaries, the term is pronounced by most if not all linguists.

Although the last episode produced provides some form of closure for the series, with Kim Sayers becoming possessed by the Hive and the head of Majestic 12 being apparently assassinated, the show's creators had originally hoped to create five seasons, as indicated by the show's " Bible " or major planning document.

As part of a wider reform of social provision it was originally thought that the focus would be as much about the prevention of ill-health as it was about curing disease.

It was originally formed to treat young victims of polio, but as that disease was controlled, they broadened their scope.

Register in 2011 that the doctor who originally diagnosed the disease believes he misdiagnosed her.

Numerous cultivars have been raised, originally for their aesthetic merit but more recently for their resistance to Dutch elm disease The total number of named cultivars is circa 45, at least 18 of which have probably been lost to cultivation as a consequence of Dutch elm disease or other factors:

The quinine was added to the drink as a prophylactic against malaria, since it was originally intended for consumption in tropical areas of South Asia and Africa, where that disease is endemic.

This technology was originally intended as an improvement on CPAP, however, its use has expanded into the treatment of other breathing disorders such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ( COPD ).

This overcrowding led to a vast increase in deaths from disease ( particularly typhus, as well as tuberculosis, typhoid fever, and dysentery ) and malnutrition in a camp originally designed to hold about 10, 000 inmates.

Although believed to be originally native to Asia, the disease has been accidentally introduced into America and Europe, where it has devastated native populations of elms which had not had the opportunity to evolve resistance to the disease.

PMS was originally seen as an imagined disease, with women who reported its symptoms often being told it was " all in their head ".

AIDS was originally termed " gay-related immune deficiency " ( GRID ), a name revised as the disease turned out to also affect heterosexuals.

In the United States, a " mental hygiene " movement, originally defined in the 19th century, gained momentum and aimed to " prevent the disease of insanity " through public health methods and clinics.

The dime was chosen to honor Roosevelt partly due to his efforts in the founding of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis ( later renamed the March of Dimes ), which originally raised money for polio research and to aid victims of the disease and their families.

Buyer had originally said he was leaving congress to spend more time with his wife, who has incurable autoimmune disease.

HPS was first recognized in 1993 in the southwest of the United States by Bruce Tempest MD, and was originally called " Four Corners disease ".

The disease is named after the Swiss pediatrician who originally described this disorder, Guido Fanconi.

David Cronenberg was surprised when The Fly became embraced as a cultural metaphor for AIDS, since he originally intended the film to be a more general analogy for disease itself, terminal conditions like cancer and, more specifically, the aging process: " If you, or your lover, has AIDS, you watch that film and of course you'll see AIDS in it, but you don't have to have that experience to respond emotionally to the movie and I think that's really its power ; This is not to say that AIDS didn't have an incredible impact on everyone and of course after a certain point people were seeing AIDS stories everywhere so I don't take any offense that people see that in my movie.

The term was originally introduced to indicate a drug that reduced evidence of processes thought to underlie the disease, such as a raised erythrocyte sedimentation rate, reduced haemoglobin level, raised rheumatoid factor level and more recently, a raised C-reactive protein level.

An alpha-synuclein fragment, known as the non-Abeta component ( NAC ) of Alzheimer's disease amyloid, originally found in an amyloid-enriched fraction, is shown to be a fragment of its precursor protein, NACP, by cloning of the full-length cDNA.

She died from heart disease a few years later and the Mausoleum was originally erected in Brompton Cemetery before being moved to St Margarets.

The word " oni " is sometimes speculated to be derived from on, the on ' yomi reading of a character () meaning to hide or conceal, as oni were originally invisible spirits or gods which caused disasters, disease, and other unpleasant things.

While once the edges of the Green were covered with a glorious canopy of elms, planted originally by James Hillhouse, most died of dutch elm disease.

The disease is named after the French doctor Philippe Gaucher, who originally described it in 1882.