Choice Notes from "Notes and Queries": Folk LoreBell and Daldy, 1859 - 304 sidor |
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Sida 45
... existence of this agency is tested , consists in attaching a horsehair to the first joint of the forefinger , and suspending to it a smooth gold ring . When the elbow is rested on the table , and the finger held in a horizontal position ...
... existence of this agency is tested , consists in attaching a horsehair to the first joint of the forefinger , and suspending to it a smooth gold ring . When the elbow is rested on the table , and the finger held in a horizontal position ...
Sida 48
... existence to her a kind of doom ? Wherefore is she thus a dark , sad exile from the blessed light of day ? Hearken ! Here , in our own dear Corn- wall , the first mole was a lady of the land ! Her abode was in the far west , among the ...
... existence to her a kind of doom ? Wherefore is she thus a dark , sad exile from the blessed light of day ? Hearken ! Here , in our own dear Corn- wall , the first mole was a lady of the land ! Her abode was in the far west , among the ...
Sida 57
... existence to her a kind of doom ? Wherefore is she thus a dark , sad exile from the blessed light of day ? Hearken ! Here , in our own dear Corn- wall , the first mole was a lady of the land ! Her abode was in the far west , among the ...
... existence to her a kind of doom ? Wherefore is she thus a dark , sad exile from the blessed light of day ? Hearken ! Here , in our own dear Corn- wall , the first mole was a lady of the land ! Her abode was in the far west , among the ...
Sida 69
... it cannot be proved that , from that time to this , any Englishman has killed a raven ? ' " My reason for transcribing this passage is to record the curious fact that the legend of King Arthur's existence in F3 CORNISH FOLK LORE . 69.
... it cannot be proved that , from that time to this , any Englishman has killed a raven ? ' " My reason for transcribing this passage is to record the curious fact that the legend of King Arthur's existence in F3 CORNISH FOLK LORE . 69.
Sida 70
... existence in the form of a raven was still repeated as a piece of folk lore in Cornwall about sixty years ago . My father , who died about two years since at the age of eighty , spent a few years of his youth in the neighbourhood of ...
... existence in the form of a raven was still repeated as a piece of folk lore in Cornwall about sixty years ago . My father , who died about two years since at the age of eighty , spent a few years of his youth in the neighbourhood of ...
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Choice Notes from "Notes and Queries": Folk Lore P.P. - London. - Notes and Queries Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1859 |
Choice Notes from "Notes and Queries": Folk Lore P.P. - London. - Notes and Queries Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1859 |
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Sida 109 - My dreams presage some joyful news at hand. My bosom's lord sits lightly in his throne ; And, all this day, an unaccustom'd spirit Lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.
Sida 149 - Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Bless the bed that I lie on. Four corners to my bed, Four angels round my head; One to watch and one to pray And two to bear my soul away.
Sida 105 - How oft when men are at the point of death Have they been merry! which their keepers call A lightning before death: O, how may I Call this a lightning?
Sida 106 - And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.
Sida 50 - In hell they'll roast thee like a herrin! In vain thy Kate awaits thy comin! Kate soon will be a woefu
Sida 71 - One for sorrow, Two for mirth, Three for a wedding, Four for a birth— Four on 'em!
Sida 106 - And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.
Sida 205 - The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
Sida 181 - With a pudding on Sundays, with stout humming liquor, And remnants of Latin to welcome the vicar...
Sida 203 - Obion is still the Egyptian name for a serpent.' Moses, in the name of God, forbids the Israelites ever to inquire of the demon Ob, which is translated in our Bible, charmer or wizard, 'divinator aut sorcilegus.