Faiths and Folklore of the British Isles: A Descriptive and Historical Dictionary of the Superstitions, Beliefs and Popular Customs of England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland, from Norman Times to the End of the Nineteenth Century, with Classical and Foreign Analogues, Band 1B. Blom, 1965 - 672 Seiten |
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... Nature are consolidated by frost for which reason it is greedily taken up by crows and other fowls when no other sustenance is to be had , so that it is often found by man in the actual circumstance of having fallen from above , having ...
... Nature are consolidated by frost for which reason it is greedily taken up by crows and other fowls when no other sustenance is to be had , so that it is often found by man in the actual circumstance of having fallen from above , having ...
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... Nature's worst vermin scare her godlike sons ; Echoes , the very leavings of a voice , Grow babling ghosts and call us to our graves : Each mole - hill thought swells to a huge Olympus , While we , fantastic dreamers , heave and puff ...
... Nature's worst vermin scare her godlike sons ; Echoes , the very leavings of a voice , Grow babling ghosts and call us to our graves : Each mole - hill thought swells to a huge Olympus , While we , fantastic dreamers , heave and puff ...
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... nature ; for it seems the effect of a wound by some insect which , piercing to the heart of the plant with its proboscis , poisons that , while the bark re- mains uninjured , and proceeds in its growth , but formed into various stripes ...
... nature ; for it seems the effect of a wound by some insect which , piercing to the heart of the plant with its proboscis , poisons that , while the bark re- mains uninjured , and proceeds in its growth , but formed into various stripes ...
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