Observations on popular antiquities: including the whole of mr. Bourne's Antiquitates vulgares. revised by sir H. Ellis, 第 3 巻 |
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Head Omens . . Hand and Finger Nails . Candle Omens . Omens at the Bars of
Grates , Purses , and Coffins 95 The Howling of Dogs Cats , Rats , and Mice
Crickets . Flies . Robin Redbreast . Swallows , Martins , Wrens , LadyBugs ,
Sparrows ...
Head Omens . . Hand and Finger Nails . Candle Omens . Omens at the Bars of
Grates , Purses , and Coffins 95 The Howling of Dogs Cats , Rats , and Mice
Crickets . Flies . Robin Redbreast . Swallows , Martins , Wrens , LadyBugs ,
Sparrows ...
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... are scratching or pricking a Witch ; ( 4 ) Witch uses the ceremony of putting one
hand taking the wall of her in a town or street , and to the sole of her foot , and the
other to the the right hand of her in a lane or field ; while crown of her head .
... are scratching or pricking a Witch ; ( 4 ) Witch uses the ceremony of putting one
hand taking the wall of her in a town or street , and to the sole of her foot , and the
other to the the right hand of her in a lane or field ; while crown of her head .
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This may justly move a man to think that these fables are the effects of
imagination ; for it is certain that ointments do all , ( if they be laid on anything
thick , ) by stopping of the pores , shut in the vapours , and send them to the head
extremely .
This may justly move a man to think that these fables are the effects of
imagination ; for it is certain that ointments do all , ( if they be laid on anything
thick , ) by stopping of the pores , shut in the vapours , and send them to the head
extremely .
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After the miserable creature has repoor timorous cat is put into a barrel partly
ceived many a rude twitch , the head is carried stuffed with soot , and then hung
up between away . ” They conclude their sports with a two high poles , upon a
cross ...
After the miserable creature has repoor timorous cat is put into a barrel partly
ceived many a rude twitch , the head is carried stuffed with soot , and then hung
up between away . ” They conclude their sports with a two high poles , upon a
cross ...
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... a wise women , reputed a kind of good and scolding tongue , having a rugged
coate on her honest harmles Witches or Wizards , who by back , a skull - cap on
her head , a spindle in good words , by hallowed herbes , and salves , her hand ...
... a wise women , reputed a kind of good and scolding tongue , having a rugged
coate on her honest harmles Witches or Wizards , who by back , a skull - cap on
her head , a spindle in good words , by hallowed herbes , and salves , her hand ...
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adds ancient appears believe birds blood body called Candle cause Characters Charm child church common cross cure curious custom dead death Divination doth Dreams edit Errors evil fall fear fire Ghosts give given ground hand hanged hath head History horses John kind King late learned leave light living Lond look Lord means mentions Moon nature neck never night NOTES observes omen opinion parish passage person practised present preserved reason received relation says Scotland Secrets seems seen signat sometimes sort speaking spirit stone superstition supposed taken tells things Thomas thought tion told touch tree turn unto vulgar weather wind Witchcraft Witches woman women
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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