Choice Notes from "Notes and Queries": Folk LoreBell and Daldy, 1859 - 304 sidor |
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... superstitious idea that the removal or exhumation of a body after inter- ment bodes death or some terrible calamity to the ... superstition : - " Thomas Fludd of Kent , Esq . , told me that it is an old observa- tion which was pressed ...
... superstitious idea that the removal or exhumation of a body after inter- ment bodes death or some terrible calamity to the ... superstition : - " Thomas Fludd of Kent , Esq . , told me that it is an old observa- tion which was pressed ...
Sida 12
... superstition is alluded to by Beaumont and Fletcher , Mad Lovers , v . 4.:· 66 I have a sty here , Chilax . Chi . I have no gold to cure it , not a penny . " Thorn . — The following word charm is used to prevent a thorn from festering ...
... superstition is alluded to by Beaumont and Fletcher , Mad Lovers , v . 4.:· 66 I have a sty here , Chilax . Chi . I have no gold to cure it , not a penny . " Thorn . — The following word charm is used to prevent a thorn from festering ...
Sida 15
... superstition which repre- sents him as the medium through which mankind are warned of approaching death . Before the death of a person , a robin is believed , in many instances , to tap thrice at the window of the room in which he or ...
... superstition which repre- sents him as the medium through which mankind are warned of approaching death . Before the death of a person , a robin is believed , in many instances , to tap thrice at the window of the room in which he or ...
Sida 16
... superstition attached to the crossing of the path by one of these animals , there is also a belief that the running of one along the street or mainway of a village portends fire to some house in the immediate vicinity . Toads . Belief ...
... superstition attached to the crossing of the path by one of these animals , there is also a belief that the running of one along the street or mainway of a village portends fire to some house in the immediate vicinity . Toads . Belief ...
Sida 17
... superstition : " When a spider is found upon our clothes , we used to say , some money is coming towards us . The moral is this : such who imitate the industry of that contemptible creature may , by God's blessing , weave themselves ...
... superstition : " When a spider is found upon our clothes , we used to say , some money is coming towards us . The moral is this : such who imitate the industry of that contemptible creature may , by God's blessing , weave themselves ...
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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.