Observations on Popular Antiquities: Chiefly Illustrating the Origin of Our Vulgar Customs, Ceremonies, and Supersititions, Volym 2Charles Knight and Company, 1841 |
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... stand true except those built between the two equi- I have experimented some Churches , and have found the line to point to that part of the horizon where the sun rises on the day of that Saint to whom the church is dedi cated . " noxes ...
... stand true except those built between the two equi- I have experimented some Churches , and have found the line to point to that part of the horizon where the sun rises on the day of that Saint to whom the church is dedi cated . " noxes ...
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... standing at some distance , throw their sickles at it , and he who cuts the knot has the prize , with acclamations and good cheer . ( 6 ) I was informed of the follow- ing custom on this occasion at Hitchin in the same county , where ...
... standing at some distance , throw their sickles at it , and he who cuts the knot has the prize , with acclamations and good cheer . ( 6 ) I was informed of the follow- ing custom on this occasion at Hitchin in the same county , where ...
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... standing by , And here a custard , there a pie , And here all - tempting Frumentie . " } ( 4 ) " Vacina Dea , cui sacrificabant Agri- colæ messe peracta : Papatus fert domum spiceas coronas , quas a tignis suspendit , nunc altaribus ...
... standing by , And here a custard , there a pie , And here all - tempting Frumentie . " } ( 4 ) " Vacina Dea , cui sacrificabant Agri- colæ messe peracta : Papatus fert domum spiceas coronas , quas a tignis suspendit , nunc altaribus ...
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... stands fixed on a pole all day , and when the reaping is done , is brought home in like manner . This they call the Harvest Queen , and it represents the Roman Ceres . " An old woman , who in a case of this nature is respectable ...
... stands fixed on a pole all day , and when the reaping is done , is brought home in like manner . This they call the Harvest Queen , and it represents the Roman Ceres . " An old woman , who in a case of this nature is respectable ...
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... stand abreast in the stream , at this kind of fishing , called heaving or hauling , up ( a ) Martin , in his Description of the Western Islands of Scotland , p . 368 , mentions a singular Harvest superstition : speaking of the Orkneys ...
... stand abreast in the stream , at this kind of fishing , called heaving or hauling , up ( a ) Martin , in his Description of the Western Islands of Scotland , p . 368 , mentions a singular Harvest superstition : speaking of the Orkneys ...
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Sida 31 - And then it started, like a guilty thing Upon a fearful summons. I have heard, The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn, Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat Awake the god of day ; and at his warning, Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air, Th' extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine ; and of the truth herein This present object made probation.
Sida 288 - She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
Sida 233 - Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race Disporting on thy margent green The paths of pleasure trace ; Who foremost now delight to cleave With pliant arm, thy glassy wave...
Sida 288 - O'er ladies' lips, who straight on kisses dream; Which oft the angry Mab with blisters plagues, Because their breaths with sweetmeats tainted are.
Sida 292 - Thro' bogs, thro' brakes ; Or else, unseene, with them I go, All in the nicke To play some tricke And frolicke it, with ho, ho, ho ! Sometimes I meete them like a man ; Sometimes, an ox, sometimes, a hound ; And to a horse I turn me can ; To trip and trot about them round. But if, to ride, My backe they stride, More swift than wind away I go, Ore hedge and lands, Thro...
Sida 152 - And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness: And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.
Sida 288 - Time out of mind the fairies' coach-makers. And in this state she gallops night by night Through lovers...
Sida 288 - Through lovers' brains, and then they dream of love: On courtiers' knees, that dream on court'sies straight: O'er lawyers' fingers, who straight dream on fees: O'er ladies...
Sida 14 - By whose tough labours, and rough hands, We rip up first, then reap our lands. Crown'd with the eares of corne, now come, And, to the Pipe, sing Harvest home.
Sida 32 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad ; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.