Chapter intro

Flech, flae

- flea. Flechin means fidgetting as if you had flechs. Kill-the-flechs is another name for feverfew. An unusual way of getting rid of people you don't like is suggested in Pitcairn's Criminal Trials (1610):

I vow to God, yf I be not quyte of him, I sall putt ane fleche in his hoise [stockings].

Ettercap Flee