 I therefore wrote the board full from top to bottom on both sides ; and my landlord, to be certain of having the whole force of the charm, washed the writing from the board into a calabash with a little water, and having said a few prayers over it, drank...  The Quarterly Journal of Science - Seite 5061870Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1837 - 538 Seiten
...from the board into a calabash with a little water, and having said a few prayers over it, drunk this powerful draught ; after which, lest a single word...escape, he licked the board until it was quite dry. A saphie writer was a man of too great consequence to be long concealed : the important information... | |
 | 1837 - 260 Seiten
...from the board into a calabash with a little water, and having said a few prayers over it, drunk this powerful draught ; after which, lest a single word...escape, he licked the board until it was quite dry. A sapuie writer was. a man of too great consequence to be long concealed : the important information... | |
 | Mungo Park - 1840 - 270 Seiten
...from tha board into a calabash with a iittle water, and, having said a few prayers over it, drank this powerful draught ; after which, lest a single word should escape, he licked the board till it was quite dry. A saphie-writer was a man of too great consequence to be long concealed : the... | |
 | John Kitto - 1855 - 676 Seiten
...from the board into a calabash with a little water, and having said a few prayers over it, drank this W Ň - (Travels, p. 236.) 29. ' This is the law of jealousies.'— The law punished proven adultery with death.... | |
 | George Bush - 1858 - 498 Seiten
...from the board into a calabash, with a little water, and having said a few prayers over it, drank this powerful draught; after which, lest a single word...escape, he licked the board until it was quite dry.' " (Travels, p. 236.)— Pict. Bible. If Shall enter into her, (and become) bitter. Heb. " Shall enter... | |
 | George Bush - 1858 - 480 Seiten
...from the board into a calabash, with a little water, and having said a few prayers over it, drank this powerful draught; after which, lest a single word...escape, he licked the board until it was quite dry.' " (Travels, p. 236.) — Met. Bible. If Shall enter into her, (and become) litter. Heb. "Shall enter... | |
 | George Bush - 1865 - 480 Seiten
...board into a calabash, with a little water, and having said a few prayers over it, drank this power ful draught; after which, lest a single word should escape, he licked the board until it was quite dry.'" (Travels, p. 236.)— Plct.' Bible. Tf Shall enter into her, (and become) bitter. Heb. " Shall enter... | |
 | 1870 - 682 Seiten
...under the name of •' La Couvade." It would seem to be a very wide-spread custom for the father, npon the birth of a child, to be put to bed instead of...but if a man die, however old, they conclude that he most have been the victim of magic. Twins are considered as a bad omen, and in most cases one, in some... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1871 - 470 Seiten
...from the board into a calabash with a little water, and having said a few prayers over it, drank this powerful draught ; after which, lest a single word...should escape, he licked the board until it was quite dry.'1 In Africa, the prayers written as medicine or as amulets are generally taken from the Koran.... | |
 | William Henry Giles Kingston - 1874 - 560 Seiten
...the board into a calabash with a little water and, having said a few prayers over it, drank the whole draught ; after which, lest a single word should escape, he licked the board until it was quite dry. The dooty of the place next sent to have a saphie written — a charm to procure wealth. So highly satisfied... | |
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