 | Early English newspapers - 1882 - 782 pages
...believe in Nyogles, 1 The author of Shetland Fireside Talcs (GSL1 also says in his "Notes" (p. 230): "The belief that witches and wizards came from the...the supposed object of those unwelcome relations of this Phocidae family was plunder, evidently showing that the seal-wizard was just the Viking or sea-robber... | |
 | English periodicals - 1882 - 876 pages
...believe in Nyogles, 1 The author of Shetland FirtsitU Talcs (GSLl also says in his "Notes" (p. 230): "The belief that witches and wizards came from the...as the beginning of the present century; and it is worlhyof note that the supposed object of those unwelcome relations of this PhodJae family was plunder,... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1882 - 784 pages
...also says in his "Notes" '): "The belief that witches and wizards came from the coast of Norway ed as seals, was entertained by many of the Shetland peasantry even so late beginning of the present century ; and it is worthyof note that the supposed if those unwelcome relations... | |
 | David MacRitchie - Ethnology - 1890 - 250 pages
...be remembered that those Finns were regarded as wizards and witches by the more ignorant classes : " the belief that witches and wizards came from the...late as the beginning of the present century." And they were regarded as, in some sense, supernatural beings. Now Dr. Blind, in suggesting that the "... | |
 | David MacRitchie - Ethnology - 1890 - 250 pages
...be remembered that those Finns were regarded as wizards and witches by the more ignorant classes : " the belief that witches and wizards came from the...late as the beginning of the present century." And they were regarded as, in some sense, supernatural beings. Now Dr. Blind, in suggesting that the "... | |
 | George Laurence Gomme - Archaeology - 1890 - 562 pages
...necessary to go so far back even as that, in order to find these Shetland " Finns". We are told that " the belief that witches and wizards came from the...Shetland peasantry even so late as the beginning of ^c present century." 1 However, we shall see them more plainly described if we turn to the latter part... | |
 | Frank Sidgwick - Ballads, English - 1904 - 272 pages
...interest. 'GSL,' the author of Shetland Fireside Tales, or the Hermit of Trosswickness (1877), remarks : 'The belief that witches and wizards came from the...so late as the beginning of the present century.' He goes on to prove the supernatural character of seals by relating an exploit of his own, in which... | |
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The belief that witches and wizards came from the coast of Norway disguised as seals, was entertained by many of the Shetland peasantry even so late as the beginning of the present century... 