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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... Relation of the Swedish Witches , at the end of Glanvil's Sadducismus Triumphatus , we are told that " the devil gives them a beast about the bigness and shape of a young cat , which they call a carrier . What this carrier brings they ...
... Relation of the Swedish Witches , at the end of Glanvil's Sadducismus Triumphatus , we are told that " the devil gives them a beast about the bigness and shape of a young cat , which they call a carrier . What this carrier brings they ...
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... Relation to the Coal Trade , p . 107 , we have an account that , in 1649 and 1650 , the magistrates of Newcastle - upon - Tyne sent into Scotland to agree with a Scotchman , who pretended knowledge to find out witches by pricking them ...
... Relation to the Coal Trade , p . 107 , we have an account that , in 1649 and 1650 , the magistrates of Newcastle - upon - Tyne sent into Scotland to agree with a Scotchman , who pretended knowledge to find out witches by pricking them ...
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... Relation printed by Matthews , in Long Acre , London , that , in the year 1716 , Mrs. Hicks , and her daughter , aged nine years , were hanged in Huntingdon for witchcraft , for selling their souls to the devil , tormenting and ...
... Relation printed by Matthews , in Long Acre , London , that , in the year 1716 , Mrs. Hicks , and her daughter , aged nine years , were hanged in Huntingdon for witchcraft , for selling their souls to the devil , tormenting and ...
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... relations to this day . " From the same work , however , xv . 311 , it should seem that the persecution of supposed witches is not yet entirely laid aside in the Orkneys . The minister of South Ronaldsay and Burray , two of those ...
... relations to this day . " From the same work , however , xv . 311 , it should seem that the persecution of supposed witches is not yet entirely laid aside in the Orkneys . The minister of South Ronaldsay and Burray , two of those ...
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... relations of almost obsolete super- stitions must never be thought a reflection on this country as long as any memory remains of the tragical end of the poor people at Tring , who , within a few miles of our capital , in 1751 , fell a ...
... relations of almost obsolete super- stitions must never be thought a reflection on this country as long as any memory remains of the tragical end of the poor people at Tring , who , within a few miles of our capital , in 1751 , fell a ...
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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.