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 3
... seems to have a strong hankering after mis- chief : " At least as little honest as he could , And like white witches mischievously good . " Gaule , as cited before , says : " According to the vulgar conceit , distinction is usually made ...
... seems to have a strong hankering after mis- chief : " At least as little honest as he could , And like white witches mischievously good . " Gaule , as cited before , says : " According to the vulgar conceit , distinction is usually made ...
Pagina 4
... seems to be sometimes good and sometimes the direct contrary . In the first case the sick are healed , thieves are bewrayed , and true men come to their goods . In the second , men , women , children , or ani- mals , as also grass ...
... seems to be sometimes good and sometimes the direct contrary . In the first case the sick are healed , thieves are bewrayed , and true men come to their goods . In the second , men , women , children , or ani- mals , as also grass ...
Pagina 17
... seems to have been practised as well to keep witches in as to keep them out . See Ramsey's Elmin- thologia , p . 76 , who speaks of nailing horseshoes on the witches ' doors and thresholds . Douce's manuscript notes ' The editor of this ...
... seems to have been practised as well to keep witches in as to keep them out . See Ramsey's Elmin- thologia , p . 76 , who speaks of nailing horseshoes on the witches ' doors and thresholds . Douce's manuscript notes ' The editor of this ...
Pagina 26
... it was to strain or slacken it . The experiment of swimming was at length tried upon Hopkins himself , in his own way , and he was , upon the event , condemned , and , as it seems , executed , 26 SORCERY OR WITCHCRAFT .
... it was to strain or slacken it . The experiment of swimming was at length tried upon Hopkins himself , in his own way , and he was , upon the event , condemned , and , as it seems , executed , 26 SORCERY OR WITCHCRAFT .
Pagina 27
... seems , executed , as a wizard . Hopkins had hanged , in one year , no less than sixty reputed witches in his own county of Essex . See Granger's Biographical History , 1775 , ii . 409. Compare also Dr. Grey's Notes on Hudibras , ii ...
... seems , executed , as a wizard . Hopkins had hanged , in one year , no less than sixty reputed witches in his own county of Essex . See Granger's Biographical History , 1775 , ii . 409. Compare also Dr. Grey's Notes on Hudibras , ii ...
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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.