Medii Ævi Kalendarium: Or, Dates, Charters, and Customs of the Middle Ages, Band 1H.K. Causton, 1841 |
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... Christmas , sometimes the first of January , and sometimes the twenty - fifth of March , commonly called the day of the Annunciation , and by us known as Lady - day . Under the Carlovingians two commencements of the year obtained ; one ...
... Christmas , sometimes the first of January , and sometimes the twenty - fifth of March , commonly called the day of the Annunciation , and by us known as Lady - day . Under the Carlovingians two commencements of the year obtained ; one ...
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... Christmas , the season of the year in which the orgies of Bacchus and the Saturnalia were celebrated , was , like those and other Cabiric festivals * See Gloss . Art . Cathedra Sancti Petri . Ovid , Fast . , Lib . II . , v . 533 et sqq ...
... Christmas , the season of the year in which the orgies of Bacchus and the Saturnalia were celebrated , was , like those and other Cabiric festivals * See Gloss . Art . Cathedra Sancti Petri . Ovid , Fast . , Lib . II . , v . 533 et sqq ...
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... Christmas , and New Year , a girl has the power of inviting and seeing her future lover . A table is to be laid for two persons , taking care , however , that there are no forks on it . Whatever the lover leaves behind him at his ...
... Christmas , and New Year , a girl has the power of inviting and seeing her future lover . A table is to be laid for two persons , taking care , however , that there are no forks on it . Whatever the lover leaves behind him at his ...
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... Christmas . In Lithuania , even to this day , an opinion prevails among persons of the middling classes , that dreams on the night before St. Andrew's day , which is properly called the eve of St. Andrew , are particularly prophetic ...
... Christmas . In Lithuania , even to this day , an opinion prevails among persons of the middling classes , that dreams on the night before St. Andrew's day , which is properly called the eve of St. Andrew , are particularly prophetic ...
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... Christmas , which are named , Les Avents de Noel . The people in some of the cantons place bundles of hay under the fruit trees , and children , not twelve years of and incan- age , are sent with torches to set fire to the hay , which ...
... Christmas , which are named , Les Avents de Noel . The people in some of the cantons place bundles of hay under the fruit trees , and children , not twelve years of and incan- age , are sent with torches to set fire to the hay , which ...
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Seite 84 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dare 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 24 - Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels...
Seite 155 - If Candlemas Day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight ; But if Candlemas Day be clouds and rain, Winter is gone, and will not come again.
Seite 56 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties, all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Seite 176 - Laud be to God ! — even there my life must end. It hath been prophesied to me many years, I should not die but in Jerusalem ; Which vainly I supposed the Holy Land. — But bear me to that chamber ; there I'll lie ; In that Jerusalem shall Harry die.
Seite 151 - Necte tribus nodis ternos, Amarylli, colores : Necte, Amarylli, modo, et, Veneris, die, vincula necto.
Seite 233 - ... and crowns of flowers. When this is done they return with their booty homewards, about the rising of the sun, and make their doors and windows to triumph in the flowery spoil. The...
Seite 352 - And because they have been used to slaughter many oxen in the sacrifices to devils, some solemnity must be exchanged for them on this account, as that on the day of the dedication, or the nativities of the holy martyrs, whose relics are there deposited, they may build themselves huts of the boughs of trees, about those churches which have been turned to that use from temples, and celebrate the solemnity with religious feasting, and no more offer beasts to the Devil...
Seite 172 - Within the cave, the clustering bees attend Their waxen works, or from the roof depend. Perpetual waters o'er the pavement glide ; Two marble doors unfold on either side; Sacred the south, by which the gods descend, But mortals enter at the northern end.
Seite 248 - Whoever draws the black bit is the devoted person who is to be sacrificed to Baal* whose favour they mean to implore, in rendering the year productive of the sustenance of man and beast. There is little doubt of these inhuman sacrifices having been once offered in this country as well as in the East, although they now pass from the act of sacrificing, and only compel the devoted person to leap three times through the flames ; with which the ceremonies of this festival are closed.