Credulities Past and Present: Including the Sea and Seamen, Miners, Amulets and Talismans, Rings, Word and Letter Divination, Numbers, Trials, Exorcising and Blessing of Animals, Birds, Eggs, and LuckChatto and Windus, 1880 - 560 Seiten |
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... fall in love with them . The Ostiacs take the skin , the bill , and the claws of this bird , shutting them up in a purse , and so long as they preserve this sort of amulet , they believe they have no ill to fear . The person who taught ...
... fall in love with them . The Ostiacs take the skin , the bill , and the claws of this bird , shutting them up in a purse , and so long as they preserve this sort of amulet , they believe they have no ill to fear . The person who taught ...
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... fall in love with them . The Ostiacs take the skin , the bill , and the claws of this bird , shutting them up in a purse , and so long as they preserve this sort of amulet , they believe they have no ill to fear . The person who taught ...
... fall in love with them . The Ostiacs take the skin , the bill , and the claws of this bird , shutting them up in a purse , and so long as they preserve this sort of amulet , they believe they have no ill to fear . The person who taught ...
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... falling into the water Are turn'd ( they say ) to liuing fowles soon after . So rotten sides of broken ships do change To barnacles ! O , transformation strange ! ' Twas first a greene tree , then a gallant hull , Lately a mushroom ...
... falling into the water Are turn'd ( they say ) to liuing fowles soon after . So rotten sides of broken ships do change To barnacles ! O , transformation strange ! ' Twas first a greene tree , then a gallant hull , Lately a mushroom ...
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... falling overboard during the voyage of St. Louis to France , on being picked up , was asked : " Why he didn't swim ? " He replied that he had no need to do so , for while falling into the sea , he exclaimed : " Our Lady of Valbert ...
... falling overboard during the voyage of St. Louis to France , on being picked up , was asked : " Why he didn't swim ? " He replied that he had no need to do so , for while falling into the sea , he exclaimed : " Our Lady of Valbert ...
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... fall his hammer into the sea , and , being in haste to snatch it back , caught a haddock instead , and thereby made the imprint retained by this fish to the present day . " Buchanan , in his " History of Scotland , " relating the ...
... fall his hammer into the sea , and , being in haste to snatch it back , caught a haddock instead , and thereby made the imprint retained by this fish to the present day . " Buchanan , in his " History of Scotland , " relating the ...
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