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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... charm the oysters into the dredge : " The herring loves the merry moonlight , The mackerel loves the wind , But the oyster loves the dredgers ' song , For he comes of a gentle kind . According to some Norwegian writers , the fishermen ...
... charm the oysters into the dredge : " The herring loves the merry moonlight , The mackerel loves the wind , But the oyster loves the dredgers ' song , For he comes of a gentle kind . According to some Norwegian writers , the fishermen ...
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... charm , and permits them to live in the depths of the ocean ; had they not this talisman they would lose their amphi- bious qualities . A story is told of a man belonging to Unst , who , one day walking along the sands , saw a group of ...
... charm , and permits them to live in the depths of the ocean ; had they not this talisman they would lose their amphi- bious qualities . A story is told of a man belonging to Unst , who , one day walking along the sands , saw a group of ...
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... charm'd eyes , on the fairies ' array ! " Ho ! ho ! " cried the elves , as the bridegroom drew near , " The willows look greener when wet with a tear ; There's a boat on the wave , but no helmsman to guide , There's an arm on the cold ...
... charm'd eyes , on the fairies ' array ! " Ho ! ho ! " cried the elves , as the bridegroom drew near , " The willows look greener when wet with a tear ; There's a boat on the wave , but no helmsman to guide , There's an arm on the cold ...
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... charm . In a chapel on the island , there was a blue stone , fixed in the altar of a round form , which was always moist . It was an ordinary custom with any fishermen who were detained in the island by contrary winds , to wash this ...
... charm . In a chapel on the island , there was a blue stone , fixed in the altar of a round form , which was always moist . It was an ordinary custom with any fishermen who were detained in the island by contrary winds , to wash this ...
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... charm for a toothache is : " An eel , a spiny back , True indeed , indeed : true in sooth , in sooth ; You must eat the head Of said spiny back . ” BELLS had a superstitious influence upon the minds of seamen . In former times , the ...
... charm for a toothache is : " An eel , a spiny back , True indeed , indeed : true in sooth , in sooth ; You must eat the head Of said spiny back . ” BELLS had a superstitious influence upon the minds of seamen . In former times , the ...
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Seite 85 - Sometimes a-dropping from the sky I heard the sky-lark sing; Sometimes all little birds that are, How they seemed to fill the sea and air With their sweet jargoning!
Seite 99 - And he fixed his eye on the darker speck. He felt the cheering power of Spring ; It made him whistle, it made him sing ; His heart was mirthful to excess, But the rover's mirth was wickedness. His eye was on the Inchcape float ; Quoth he, " My men, put out the boat, And row me to the Inchcape rock, And I'll plague the abbot of Aberbrothok.
Seite 280 - Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast : for it is the number of a man ; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
Seite 404 - And then it started, like a guilty thing Upon a fearful summons. I have heard The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn, Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat Awake the god of day; and at his warning. Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air, The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine; and of the truth herein This present object made probation.
Seite 99 - No STIR in the air, no stir in the sea: The ship was still as she could be; Her sails from heaven received no motion; Her keel was steady in the ocean. Without either sign or sound of their shock, The waves flowed over the Inchcape Rock; So little they rose, so little they fell, They did not move the Inchcape Bell. The...
Seite 99 - On a buoy in the storm it floated and swung, And over the waves its warning rung. When the Rock was hid by the surge's swell, The mariners heard the warning Bell ; And then they knew the perilous Rock, And blest the Abbot of Aberbrothok.
Seite 420 - But the Nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet loud music out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased.
Seite 284 - And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Seite 100 - On the deck the Rover takes his stand, So dark it is they see no land. Quoth Sir Ralph, " It will be lighter soon, For there is the dawn of the rising moon.
Seite 8 - Bring oil to fire, snow to their colder moods; Renege, affirm, and turn their halcyon beaks With every gale and vary of their masters, Knowing nought, like dogs, but following.