Brand's Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Faiths and Folklore; a Dictionary of National Beliefs, Superstitions and Popular Customs, Past and Current, with Their Classical and Foreign Analogues, Described and Illustrated, Volume 1John Brand, Henry Ellis, William Carew Hazlitt |
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... grave ; make you , pretty babe , put finger ith ' eye , and turne the door quite off the hinges . " The above romance is said to have been founded on a true history ; the costume appears to be very accurate and appropriate . Bachelor's ...
... grave ; make you , pretty babe , put finger ith ' eye , and turne the door quite off the hinges . " The above romance is said to have been founded on a true history ; the costume appears to be very accurate and appropriate . Bachelor's ...
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... grave , we have still use of it , we have still need of it . " Paradisus Terrestris , 1629 , p . 426. In " A strange Meta- morphosis of Man , " & c . , 1634 , it is ob- served , that " hee ( the Bay ) is fit for halls and stately roomes ...
... grave , we have still use of it , we have still need of it . " Paradisus Terrestris , 1629 , p . 426. In " A strange Meta- morphosis of Man , " & c . , 1634 , it is ob- served , that " hee ( the Bay ) is fit for halls and stately roomes ...
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... grave . " This seems to account for a custom still preserved in the North of England , of making numeral dis- tinctions at the conclusion of this cere- mony : i.e. , nine knells for a man , six for a woman , and three for a child ...
... grave . " This seems to account for a custom still preserved in the North of England , of making numeral dis- tinctions at the conclusion of this cere- mony : i.e. , nine knells for a man , six for a woman , and three for a child ...
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... grave old King , I profess I would bow and cringe as well as any limber - ham of them all , and pay my adoration to that point of the compass ( the East ) : but if men believe that the Holy One who in- habits Eternity , is also ...
... grave old King , I profess I would bow and cringe as well as any limber - ham of them all , and pay my adoration to that point of the compass ( the East ) : but if men believe that the Holy One who in- habits Eternity , is also ...
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... grave : and at last they con- cluded to mingle a gold tissue with grass- green , which latter signifies youthful jol- lity . For the bride's favours , top - knots , and garters , the bride proposed blew , gold- colour , popingay - green ...
... grave : and at last they con- cluded to mingle a gold tissue with grass- green , which latter signifies youthful jol- lity . For the bride's favours , top - knots , and garters , the bride proposed blew , gold- colour , popingay - green ...
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Page 131 - gainst that season comes Wherein our saviour's birth is celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad ; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.
Page 75 - When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn That ten day-labourers could not end; Then lies him down, the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength; And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.
Page 232 - So when a child, as playful children use, Has burnt to tinder a stale last year's news, The flame extinct, he views the roving fire — There goes my lady, and there goes the squire, There goes the parson, oh ! illustrious spark, And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk ! REPORT • OF AN ADJUDGED CASE NOT TO BE FOUND IN ANY OF THE BOOKS.
Page 308 - ... in all probability those common juggling words of "Hocuspocus," are nothing else but a corruption of " Hoc est corpus," by way of ridiculous imitation of the Priests of the church of Rome in their trick of transubstantiation.
Page 204 - Of healths five fathom deep ; and then anon Drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes, And being thus frighted swears a prayer or two, And sleeps again. This is that very Mab That plats the manes of horses in the night, And bakes the elf-locks in foul sluttish hairs, Which once untangled much misfortune bodes...
Page 294 - 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 155 - I'll speed me to the pond, where the high stool On the long plank hangs o'er the muddy pool, That stool, the dread of every scolding quean.
Page 148 - Nor can their aspects, though you pore Your eyes out on 'em., tell you more Than th' oracle of sieve and shears ; That turns as certain as the spheres...
Page 14 - ... stripped naked, were pushed through the apertures, under a persuasion that, by such a process, the poor babes would be cured of their infirmity. As soon as the operation was over, the tree, in the suffering part, was plastered with loam, and carefully swathed up. If the parts coalesced and soldered together, as usually fell out, where the feat was performed with any adroitness at all, the party was cured ; but, where the cleft continued to gape, the operation, it was supposed, would prove ineffectual....
Page 34 - Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Bless the bed that I lie on. Four corners to my bed, Four angels round my head; One to watch and one to pray And two to bear my soul away.