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, Band 1John Brand, Sir Henry Ellis, William Carew Hazlitt, Henry Ellis Reeves and Turner, 1905 |
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... origin . A very intelligent writer says , speaking of the matter of falling stars : " Amongst our selves , when any such matter is found in the fields , the very countrey - men cry it fell from Heav'n and the staries , and as I remember ...
... origin . A very intelligent writer says , speaking of the matter of falling stars : " Amongst our selves , when any such matter is found in the fields , the very countrey - men cry it fell from Heav'n and the staries , and as I remember ...
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... origin of this English custom : but it is unquestionably very ancient , and is still kept up even in great towns , though less in them than in the country . With sale . Its attractions were as multifarious as those at 12 NATIONAL FAITHS.
... origin of this English custom : but it is unquestionably very ancient , and is still kept up even in great towns , though less in them than in the country . With sale . Its attractions were as multifarious as those at 12 NATIONAL FAITHS.
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... origin in the ancient practice of celebrating , with festival rites the period of the Ver- nal Equinox , or the day when the new year of Persia anciently began . " Ind . Antiq . , vi . , 71. Cambridge tells us that the first day of ...
... origin in the ancient practice of celebrating , with festival rites the period of the Ver- nal Equinox , or the day when the new year of Persia anciently began . " Ind . Antiq . , vi . , 71. Cambridge tells us that the first day of ...
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... origin of the word " macquereau " in its obscene sense . Leroux , " Dictionnaire Comique , " tom . 1. , p . 70 , quotes the following : 66 " Et si n'y a ne danger ne peril Mais j'en feray votre poisson d'Avril . " Poesies de Pierre ...
... origin of the word " macquereau " in its obscene sense . Leroux , " Dictionnaire Comique , " tom . 1. , p . 70 , quotes the following : 66 " Et si n'y a ne danger ne peril Mais j'en feray votre poisson d'Avril . " Poesies de Pierre ...
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... origin of the mark across the back of the ass is men- tioned by Sir Thomas Browne , in his Vulgar Errors , ' and from whatever cause it may have arisen it is certain that the hairs taken from the part of the animal so marked are held in ...
... origin of the mark across the back of the ass is men- tioned by Sir Thomas Browne , in his Vulgar Errors , ' and from whatever cause it may have arisen it is certain that the hairs taken from the part of the animal so marked are held in ...
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Seite 135 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long : % And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.
Seite 27 - Resolv'd to smooth his shaggy face, He sought the barber of the place. A flippant monkey, spruce and smart, Hard by, profess'd the dapper art ; His pole with pewter basons hung, Black rotten teeth in order strung, Rang'd cups, that in the window stood, Lin'd with red rags, to look like blood, Did well his threefold trade explain, Who shav'd, drew teeth, and breath'da vein.
Seite 236 - So when a child, as playful children use, Has burnt to tinder a stale last year's news, The flame extinct, he views the roving fire — There goes my lady, and there goes the squire, There goes the parson, oh ! illustrious spark, And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk ! REPORT • OF AN ADJUDGED CASE NOT TO BE FOUND IN ANY OF THE BOOKS.
Seite 80 - ... follows that of whipping a blinded bear, which is performed by five or six men, standing circularly with whips, which they exercise upon him without any mercy, as he cannot escape from them because of his chain : he defends himself with all his force and skill, throwing down all who come within his reach, and are not active enough to get out of it, and tearing the whips out of their hands, and breaking them.
Seite 316 - ... in all probability those common juggling words of "Hocuspocus," are nothing else but a corruption of " Hoc est corpus," by way of ridiculous imitation of the Priests of the church of Rome in their trick of transubstantiation.
Seite 302 - If I beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness ; And my heart hath been secretly enticed, Or my mouth hath kissed my hand : This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge : For I should have denied the God that is above.
Seite 249 - Stain all my soul, and wanton in my eyes. I waste the Matin lamp in sighs for thee, Thy image steals between my God and me, Thy voice I seem in...
Seite 29 - OR, LAST IN HELL. WE two are last in hell ; what may we feare To be tormented or kept pris'ners here ? Alas ! if kissing be of plagues the worst, We'll wish, in hell we had been last and first.
Seite 24 - Had all the morning held, now the second Time made ready, that day, in flocks are found In the Presence, and I (God pardon me) As fresh and sweet their Apparels be, as be Their fields they sold to buy them. For a king Those hose are, cry the flatterers ; and bring Them next week to the theatre to sell.
Seite 18 - ... stripped naked, were pushed through the apertures, under a persuasion that, by such a process, the poor babes would be cured of their infirmity. As soon as the operation was over, the tree, in the suffering part, was plastered with loam, and carefully swathed up. If the parts coalesced and soldered together, as usually fell out, where the feat was performed with any adroitness at all, the party was cured ; but, where the cleft continued to gape, the operation, it was supposed, would prove ineffectual....