Observations on popular antiquities: including the whole of mr. Bourne's Antiquitates vulgares. revised by sir H. Ellis, 第 3 巻1842 |
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... fire on May - day a Witch , nor will they give it to any but sick persons , and that with an imprecation , believing she will steal all the butter next summer . On May - day they kill all hares they find among their cattle , supposing ...
... fire on May - day a Witch , nor will they give it to any but sick persons , and that with an imprecation , believing she will steal all the butter next summer . On May - day they kill all hares they find among their cattle , supposing ...
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... Fire , " ) " according to my nurse's account , must be a hagged old woman , living in a little rotten cottage , under a hill , by a wood - side , and must be frequently spinning at the door : she must have a black cat , two or three ...
... Fire , " ) " according to my nurse's account , must be a hagged old woman , living in a little rotten cottage , under a hill , by a wood - side , and must be frequently spinning at the door : she must have a black cat , two or three ...
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... fire , in order to confine the spirit : but this sometimes did not prove suf- ficient , as it would often force the cork out with a loud noise , like that of a pistol , and cast the contents of the bottle to a consider- able height ...
... fire , in order to confine the spirit : but this sometimes did not prove suf- ficient , as it would often force the cork out with a loud noise , like that of a pistol , and cast the contents of the bottle to a consider- able height ...
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... fire when a Witch comes in . Mars is ene- my to Saturn . " He adds , ibid . , " Under the porch of Staninfield church in Suffolk , I saw a tile with a horse - shoe upon it , placed there for this purpose , though one would imagine that ...
... fire when a Witch comes in . Mars is ene- my to Saturn . " He adds , ibid . , " Under the porch of Staninfield church in Suffolk , I saw a tile with a horse - shoe upon it , placed there for this purpose , though one would imagine that ...
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... Fire it , fire it : I'll stand between thee and home for any danger . ( As that burns , enter the Witch . ) 1 Countryman . This thatch is as good as a jury to prove she is a Witch . O. Banks . To prove her one , we no sooner set fire on ...
... Fire it , fire it : I'll stand between thee and home for any danger . ( As that burns , enter the Witch . ) 1 Countryman . This thatch is as good as a jury to prove she is a Witch . O. Banks . To prove her one , we no sooner set fire on ...
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91 ページ - If I beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness ; And my heart hath been secretly enticed, Or my mouth hath kissed my hand : This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge : For I should have denied the God that is above.
213 ページ - Lead then, said Eve. He leading swiftly roll'd In tangles, and made intricate seem straight. To mischief swift. Hope elevates, and joy Brightens his crest. As when a wandering fire, Compact of unctuous vapour, which the night Condenses, and the cold environs round, Kindled through agitation to a flame, Which oft, they say, some evil spirit attends, Hovering and blazing with delusive light, Misleads the amazed night-wanderer from his way To bogs and mires, and oft through pond or pool, There swallow'd...
38 ページ - I am thy father's spirit ; Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night ; And for the day confined to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature Are burnt and purged away.
155 ページ - ... ineffectual. Having occasion to enlarge my garden not long since, I cut down two or three such trees, one of which did not grow together. We have several persons now living in the village, who, in their childhood, were supposed to be healed by this superstitious ceremony, derived down perhaps from our Saxon ancestors, who practised it before their conversion to Christianity.
216 ページ - This Puck seems but a dreaming dolt, Still walking like a ragged colt, And oft out of a bush doth bolt, Of purpose to deceive us ; And, leading us, makes us to stray, Long winters nights out of the way, And when we stick in mire and clay, He doth with laughter leave us.
149 ページ - Himself best knows . but strangely-visited people, All swoln and ulcerous, pitiful to the eye, The mere despair of surgery, he cures ; Hanging a golden stamp about their necks, Put on with holy prayers : and, 'tis spoken, To the succeeding royalty he leaves The healing benediction.
39 ページ - Through skies, where I could count each little star. The fanning west wind scarcely stirs the leaves ; The river, rushing o'er its pebbled bed, Imposes silence, with a stilly sound. In such a place as this, at such an hour, If ancestry can be in aught believed, Descending spirits have conversed with man, And told the secrets of the world unknown.
107 ページ - Is it not ominous in all countries, When crows and ravens croak upon trees ?§ The Roman senate, when within The city walls an owl was seen, Did cause their clergy, with lustrations, Our Synod calls humiliations, The round-faced prodigy t' avert From doing town or country hurt.
170 ページ - And they, who to be sure of Paradise, Dying, put on the weeds of Dominic, Or in Franciscan think to pass disguised.
76 ページ - mind upon the eye, or by the eye upon the mind, by which " things distant and future are perceived and seen as if they