Curious Myths of the Middle AgesHurst, 1889 - 272 pagina's |
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Pagina 7
... according to your law ; " the shouts of the Jews , however , increasing , he , at their request , released unto them Barabbas , and delivered Jesus to them to be crucified . When , therefore , the Jews were dragging Jesus forth , and ...
... according to your law ; " the shouts of the Jews , however , increasing , he , at their request , released unto them Barabbas , and delivered Jesus to them to be crucified . When , therefore , the Jews were dragging Jesus forth , and ...
Pagina 8
... according as our Lord said , this Cartaphilus is still awaiting His return . At the time of our Lord's suffering he was thirty years old , and when he attains the age of a hundred years , he always returns to the same age as he was when ...
... according as our Lord said , this Cartaphilus is still awaiting His return . At the time of our Lord's suffering he was thirty years old , and when he attains the age of a hundred years , he always returns to the same age as he was when ...
Pagina 25
... According to local legend , he is identified with the Gypsies , or rather that strange people are sup- posed to be living under a curse somewhat similar to that inflicted on Ahasverus , because they refused shelter to the Virgin and ...
... According to local legend , he is identified with the Gypsies , or rather that strange people are sup- posed to be living under a curse somewhat similar to that inflicted on Ahasverus , because they refused shelter to the Virgin and ...
Pagina 55
... According to Vetranius Maurus , Varro left a satire on the " Virgula divina , " which has not been pre- served . Tacitus tells us that the Germans practised some sort of divination by means of rods . " For the purpose their method is ...
... According to Vetranius Maurus , Varro left a satire on the " Virgula divina , " which has not been pre- served . Tacitus tells us that the Germans practised some sort of divination by means of rods . " For the purpose their method is ...
Pagina 58
... according as the metal or the water are near or remote from the surface ! " In 1659 the Jesuit Gaspard Schott writes that the rod is used in every town of Germany , and that he had frequent opportunity of seeing it used in the discovery ...
... according as the metal or the water are near or remote from the surface ! " In 1659 the Jesuit Gaspard Schott writes that the rod is used in every town of Germany , and that he had frequent opportunity of seeing it used in the discovery ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 311 - the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither : so that there was neither hammer, nor axe, nor any tool of iron, heard in the house while it was in building
Pagina 195 - Cal. I have seen thee in her; and I do adore thee. My mistress showed me thee, and thy dog, and thy bush." The dog I have myself had pointed out to me by an old Devonshire crone. If popular superstition places a dog in the moon, it puts a lamb in
Pagina 402 - set them downe, and in one of their laps King Arthur laide his head. And then that queene said, ' Ah ! deer brother, why have ye tarried so long from me? Alas ! this wound on your head hath taken over much cold." And so then they rowed from the land, and Sir Bedivere
Pagina 225 - The odious stranger, disguising every circumstance of time and place, assumed the mask of a martyr, a saint, and a Christian hero ; and the infamous George of Cappadocia has been transformed into the renowned St. George of England, the patron of arms, of chivalry, and of the Garter.
Pagina 401 - take the little bed on which I died For Lancelot's love, and deck it like the Queen's For richness, and me also like the Queen In all I have of rich, and lay me on it. And let there be prepared a chariot-bier To take me to the river, and a barge Be ready on the river, clothed in black.
Pagina 195 - Out o' th' moon, I do assure thee. I was the man in th' moon when time was. " Cal. I have seen thee in her; and I do adore thee. My mistress showed me thee, and thy dog, and thy bush.
Pagina 425 - If the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised ; and if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain. But now is Christ risen from the
Pagina 358 - so exemplary for her conjugal affection. Her husband, Sir Richard, and she chanced, during their abode in Ireland, to visit a friend, the head of a sept, who resided in an ancient baronial castle surrounded with a moat. At midnight she was awakened by a ghastly and supernatural scream, and
Pagina 311 - Thou shalt not build it of hewn stone, for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it
Pagina 279 - is still used in Iceland as a magical sign in connection with storms of wind and rain. King Olaf, Longfellow tells us, when keeping Christmas at Drontheim — "O'er his drinking-horn, the sign He made of the Cross Divine, As he drank, and