Killing the god (cont'd) The golden boughMacmillan and Company, limited, 1900 |
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... carried them about his person . Then he laid them down , and calling the sun to witness , cast his sins upon them , after which , having eased his heart of all that weighed upon it , he threw the weeds into the fire , and fancied that ...
... carried them about his person . Then he laid them down , and calling the sun to witness , cast his sins upon them , after which , having eased his heart of all that weighed upon it , he threw the weeds into the fire , and fancied that ...
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... carried away by the wind . If it be cut money , it is thrown to the bottom of deep water , or where it can never be found . If it be a sheep , it is carried away to a distance on the shoulders of a man , who runs with all his might ...
... carried away by the wind . If it be cut money , it is thrown to the bottom of deep water , or where it can never be found . If it be a sheep , it is carried away to a distance on the shoulders of a man , who runs with all his might ...
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... carried to an open place out- side the village . Here , being left to himself , he soon comes to life again , and hastens back to claim his reward.1 In 1590 a Scotch witch of the name of Agnes Sampson was convicted of curing a certain ...
... carried to an open place out- side the village . Here , being left to himself , he soon comes to life again , and hastens back to claim his reward.1 In 1590 a Scotch witch of the name of Agnes Sampson was convicted of curing a certain ...
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... carry the hair to their nests , they will carry the cough with it . In the Mark of Brandenburg a cure for headache ... carried round first the well and afterwards the church . Next the sufferer entered the church and lay down under the ...
... carry the hair to their nests , they will carry the cough with it . In the Mark of Brandenburg a cure for headache ... carried round first the well and afterwards the church . Next the sufferer entered the church and lay down under the ...
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... carry him head foremost , by means of straw ropes , to a bush , on which they dump him down . Then he must jump up and run home . The friends who carried him also flee , leaving the straw ropes and likewise the fever behind them on the ...
... carry him head foremost , by means of straw ropes , to a bush , on which they dump him down . Then he must jump up and run home . The friends who carried him also flee , leaving the straw ropes and likewise the fever behind them on the ...
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Seite 187 - And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews ! And they spit upon him, and took the reed and smote him on the head.
Seite 43 - Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices, to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive...
Seite 176 - And in every province whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing ; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
Seite 262 - They kindle a fire, and dress a repast of eggs and milk in the consistence of a custard. They knead a cake of oatmeal, which is toasted at the embers against a stone. After the custard is eaten up, they divide the cake...
Seite 187 - Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it. 25 Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children. 26 Then released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.
Seite 263 - The rites begin with spilling some of the caudle on the ground, by way of libation : on that every one takes a cake of oatmeal, upon which are raised nine square knobs, each dedicated to some particular being, the supposed preserver of their flocks and herds, or to some particular animal, the real destroyer of them. Each person then turns his face to the fire, breaks off a knob, and flinging it over his shoulders, says, " This I give to thce, preserve thou my horses ; this to thee, preserve thou...
Seite 183 - And Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal apparel of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a garment of fine linen and purple: and the city of Shushan rejoiced and was glad.
Seite 460 - In the last analysis, magic, religion and science are nothing but theories of thought; and as science has supplanted its predecessors, so it may hereafter be itself superseded by some more perfect hypothesis, perhaps by some totally different way of looking at the phenomena — of registering the shadows on the screen — of which we in this generation can form no idea.
Seite 363 - is far from here and hard to find, on the wide ocean. In that sea is an island, and on the island there grows a green oak, and beneath the oak is an iron chest, and in the chest is a small basket, and in the basket is a hare, and in the hare is a duck, and in the duck is an egg ; and he who finds the egg and breaks it, kills me at the same time.
Seite 290 - Accordingly, exactly at midnight, the fires began to appear; and taking the advantage of going up to the leads of the house, which had a widely extended view, I saw on a radius of thirty miles, all around, the fires burning on every eminence which the country afforded. I had a farther satisfaction in learning, from undoubted authority, that the people danced round the fires, and at the close went through these fires, and made their sons and daughters, together with their cattle, pass through the...