Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly Illustrating the Origin of Our Vulgar and Provincial Customs, Ceremonies, and Superstitions, Volume 3Bohn, 1849 - Christian antiquities |
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... rain , hail , tempests , thunder , lightning , when she , being but an old doting woman , casteth a flint stone over her left shoulder towards the west , or hurleth a little sea - sand up into the element , or wetteth a broom- sprig in ...
... rain , hail , tempests , thunder , lightning , when she , being but an old doting woman , casteth a flint stone over her left shoulder towards the west , or hurleth a little sea - sand up into the element , or wetteth a broom- sprig in ...
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... rain , and the birth of a monstrous child ; and he forgot that the best of omens is to unsheathe our sword in defence of our country . He returned to Con- stantinople , and exchanged the thoughts of war for those of devotion ...
... rain , and the birth of a monstrous child ; and he forgot that the best of omens is to unsheathe our sword in defence of our country . He returned to Con- stantinople , and exchanged the thoughts of war for those of devotion ...
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... rain and drops of water , is good for plowmen . 33. To dream of being touched with lightning , to the unmarried signifies marriage ; but it breaks marriages made , and makes friends enemies . 34. To dream of having or seeing the ...
... rain and drops of water , is good for plowmen . 33. To dream of being touched with lightning , to the unmarried signifies marriage ; but it breaks marriages made , and makes friends enemies . 34. To dream of having or seeing the ...
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... rain and wind . Did we make observations , we should find that the temperature of the air hath so little sympathy ... rain . If the circle be wide , and at some distance from the body of that luminary , it is believed that the rain will ...
... rain and wind . Did we make observations , we should find that the temperature of the air hath so little sympathy ... rain . If the circle be wide , and at some distance from the body of that luminary , it is believed that the rain will ...
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... rain , as if they did sweat , leaving a smutch upon the table cloaths ; with this Pliny concludes as a sign of tempests approaching . Stones against rain will have a dew hang upon them ; 66 The following occurs in Delrio , Disquisit ...
... rain , as if they did sweat , leaving a smutch upon the table cloaths ; with this Pliny concludes as a sign of tempests approaching . Stones against rain will have a dew hang upon them ; 66 The following occurs in Delrio , Disquisit ...
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Page 303 - Himself best knows : but strangely-visited people, All swoln and ulcerous, pitiful to the eye, The mere despair of surgery, he cures ; Hanging a golden stamp about their necks, Put on with holy prayers : and, 'tis spoken, To the succeeding royalty he leaves The healing benediction.
Page 179 - 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.
Page 73 - I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul ; freeze thy young blood ; Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from...
Page 292 - Into the body of the tree a deep hole was bored with an auger, and a poor devoted shrew-mouse was thrust in alive, and plugged in, no doubt, with several quaint incantations long since forgotten. As the ceremonies necessary for such a consecration are no longer understood, all succession is at an end, and no such tree is known to subsist in the manor, or hundred. As to that on the Plestor "The late Vicar stubb'd and burnt it...
Page 242 - O' th' compass in their bones and joints, Can by their pangs and aches find All turns and changes of the wind, And better than by Napier's bones Feel in their own the age of moons...
Page 153 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold.
Page 113 - Alas! you know the cause too well, The salt is spilt, to me it fell. Then, to contribute to my loss, My knife and fork were laid across, On friday too! the day I dread! Would I were safe at home in bed! Last night (I vow to Heav'n 'tis true) Bounce from the fire a coffin flew. Next post some fatal news shall tell. God send my Cornish friends be well...
Page 106 - If so, my friend, pray let her take A second turn into the lake, And, rather than your patience lose, Thrice and again repeat the dose. No brawling wives, no furious wenches, No fire so hot, but water quenches.
Page 183 - Nor less amus'd have I, quiescent, watch'd The sooty films that play upon the bars, Pendulous, and foreboding, in the view Of superstition, prophesying still, Though still deceiv'd, some stranger's near approach.
Page 94 - But, if ever the duke return, (as our prayers are he may,) let me desire you to 1 clack-dish:} The beggars, two or three centuries ago, used to proclaim their want by a wooden dish with a moveable cover, which they clacked, to show that their vessel was empty.