Brand's Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Faiths and Folklore; a Dictionary of National Beliefs, Superstitions and Popular Customs, Past and Current, with Their Classical and Foreign Analogues, Described and Illustrated. Forming a New Ed. of "The Popular Antiquities of Great Britain", Band 1Reeves and Turner, 1905 |
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... dead wife . These burial feasts are still kept up in the North of England , and are there called arvals or arvils . The bread distri- buted on these occasions is called arvil bread . The custom seems borrowed from the ancients , amongst ...
... dead wife . These burial feasts are still kept up in the North of England , and are there called arvals or arvils . The bread distri- buted on these occasions is called arvil bread . The custom seems borrowed from the ancients , amongst ...
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... dead were thus exhi- bited by antient nations , and perhaps the enstom was introduced here by the Romans . - Northumberland , ii . 20. Com- pare Funeral Customs . These funeral entertainments are of very old date . Cecrops is said to ...
... dead were thus exhi- bited by antient nations , and perhaps the enstom was introduced here by the Romans . - Northumberland , ii . 20. Com- pare Funeral Customs . These funeral entertainments are of very old date . Cecrops is said to ...
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... dead ; we will not stay . The bay trees in our country are all wither'd— ” " " Upon which Steevens observes that " Some of these prodigies are found in Holinshed , ' In this yeare , in a manner throughout all the realme of England , old ...
... dead ; we will not stay . The bay trees in our country are all wither'd— ” " " Upon which Steevens observes that " Some of these prodigies are found in Holinshed , ' In this yeare , in a manner throughout all the realme of England , old ...
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... dead . An observation which he gives us of Pliny , concerning Pytha- goras's interdiction of this pulse , is highly remarkable . It is " that beans contain the souls of the dead . " For which cause also they were used in the Parentalia ...
... dead . An observation which he gives us of Pliny , concerning Pytha- goras's interdiction of this pulse , is highly remarkable . It is " that beans contain the souls of the dead . " For which cause also they were used in the Parentalia ...
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... dead . " Bede's - Well . About a mile to the west of Jarrow ( near Newcastle - upon- Tyne ) , there is a well still called Bede's Well , to which , as late as the year 1740 , it was a prevailing custom to bring children troubled with ...
... dead . " Bede's - Well . About a mile to the west of Jarrow ( near Newcastle - upon- Tyne ) , there is a well still called Bede's Well , to which , as late as the year 1740 , it was a prevailing custom to bring children troubled with ...
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