Should the carpenters be very apprehensive of the building falling, they, when fixing a post, should take something living and put it beneath, and lower the post on it, and to liberate [the evil influences] they should strike the post with an axe and... Zur Volkskunde: Alte und neue Aufsätze - Page 292by Felix Liebrecht - 1879 - 522 pagesFull view - About this book
| Edward Burnett Tylor - Animism - 1874 - 528 pages
...very apprehensive of the building falling, they, when fixing a post, should take something living ur.d put it beneath, and lower the post on it, and to liberate...strike the post with an axe and repeat— ' It is well, it is well, May those who live within Be ever warm and well fed.' " land. 1 Within our own dominion,... | |
| Felix Liebrecht - 1879 - 554 pages
...Schon in einem chinesischen Werke , angeführt von Tylor, Primitive Culture. ad ed. Lond! 1873. \ I07 heisst es : »Before beginning to build, the workmen...sich dagegen bei Rochholtz, Aarg. Sag. 2, 184. 286. t well, it is well — May those who live within — Be ever warm and well fed'.« Andere Beispiele... | |
| Edward Burnett Tylor - Animism - 1889 - 524 pages
...apprehensive of the building falling, they, when fixing a post, should take something living and pnt it beneath, and lower the post on it, and to liberate...evil influences] they should strike the post with an axa and repeat — ' It is well, it is well, May those who live within Be ever warm and well fed.'... | |
| Edward Burnett Tylor - Animism - 1889 - 532 pages
...be very apprehensive of the building falling, they, when fixing a post, should take something living and put it beneath, and lower the post on it, and to liberate [the evil influences] they shonld strike the post with an aza and repeat — ' It is well, it is well, May those who live within... | |
| Lewis Dayton Burdick - Rites and ceremonies - 1901 - 274 pages
...when fixing a post, should take something living and put beneath it, and lower the post on it. Then, to liberate the evil influences, they should strike the post with an ax, and repeat, " It is well, it is well, May those who live within, Be ever warm and well fed." *... | |
| Richard Mercer Dorson - Folklore - 1999 - 416 pages
...something living and put it beneath, and lower the post on it, nnd to liberate [the evil influenees] they should strike the post with an axe and repeat — "It is well, it is well, May those who live within Be ever warm and well fed." * having buiit an obnoxious... | |
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