Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly Illustrating the Origin of Our Vulgar and Provincial Customs, Ceremonies, and Superstitions, Volume 3Bohn, 1849 |
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Pagina 5
... means that witches use to move extraordinary tempests and rain . " " Ignorance , " says Osbourne , in his Advice to his Son , 8vo . Oxf . 1656 , " reports of witches that they are unable to hurt The power of confining and bestowing is ...
... means that witches use to move extraordinary tempests and rain . " " Ignorance , " says Osbourne , in his Advice to his Son , 8vo . Oxf . 1656 , " reports of witches that they are unable to hurt The power of confining and bestowing is ...
Pagina 23
... means , after some time , the cir- culation of the blood would be much stopped , and her sitting would be as painful as the wooden horse ; and she must continue in this pain twenty- four hours , without either sleep or meat ; and it was ...
... means , after some time , the cir- culation of the blood would be much stopped , and her sitting would be as painful as the wooden horse ; and she must continue in this pain twenty- four hours , without either sleep or meat ; and it was ...
Pagina 45
... means , before it takes effect upon their victim . One of the simplest of these forms is looking steadfastly in the fire , so that a per- son seen sitting musing with his eyes fixed upon the fire is looked upon with great suspicion ...
... means , before it takes effect upon their victim . One of the simplest of these forms is looking steadfastly in the fire , so that a per- son seen sitting musing with his eyes fixed upon the fire is looked upon with great suspicion ...
Pagina 52
... its fame , is written in a dialect by no means generally understood . Had Mr. Addison known , or could he have read this , how fine a subject would it have afforded him on which to have displayed 52 32 TOAD - STONE .
... its fame , is written in a dialect by no means generally understood . Had Mr. Addison known , or could he have read this , how fine a subject would it have afforded him on which to have displayed 52 32 TOAD - STONE .
Pagina 60
... means of a speculator or seer , who , to have a complete sight , ought to be a pure virgin , a youth who had not known woman , or at least a person of irreproachable life and purity of man- ners . The method of such consultation is this ...
... means of a speculator or seer , who , to have a complete sight , ought to be a pure virgin , a youth who had not known woman , or at least a person of irreproachable life and purity of man- ners . The method of such consultation is this ...
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Pagina 303 - 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.
Pagina 179 - 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.
Pagina 73 - I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul ; freeze thy young blood ; Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from...
Pagina 292 - Into the body of the tree a deep hole was bored with an auger, and a poor devoted shrew-mouse was thrust in alive, and plugged in, no doubt, with several quaint incantations long since forgotten. As the ceremonies necessary for such a consecration are no longer understood, all succession is at an end, and no such tree is known to subsist in the manor, or hundred. As to that on the Plestor "The late Vicar stubb'd and burnt it...
Pagina 242 - O' th' compass in their bones and joints, Can by their pangs and aches find All turns and changes of the wind, And better than by Napier's bones Feel in their own the age of moons...
Pagina 153 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold.
Pagina 113 - Alas! you know the cause too well, The salt is spilt, to me it fell. Then, to contribute to my loss, My knife and fork were laid across, On friday too! the day I dread! Would I were safe at home in bed! Last night (I vow to Heav'n 'tis true) Bounce from the fire a coffin flew. Next post some fatal news shall tell. God send my Cornish friends be well...
Pagina 106 - If so, my friend, pray let her take A second turn into the lake, And, rather than your patience lose, Thrice and again repeat the dose. No brawling wives, no furious wenches, No fire so hot, but water quenches.
Pagina 183 - Nor less amus'd have I, quiescent, watch'd The sooty films that play upon the bars, Pendulous, and foreboding, in the view Of superstition, prophesying still, Though still deceiv'd, some stranger's near approach.
Pagina 94 - But, if ever the duke return, (as our prayers are he may,) let me desire you to 1 clack-dish:} The beggars, two or three centuries ago, used to proclaim their want by a wooden dish with a moveable cover, which they clacked, to show that their vessel was empty.