Brewer's: Needfire

Fire obtained by friction. It has been supposed to defeat sorcery, and cure diseases assigned to witchcraft. (Danish, gnide, to rub.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
Needful
Needs must when the Devil Drives
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