 | James Napier - Folklore - 1879 - 208 pages
...their subjects' sense of sight, and caused them to see whatever they desired that they should see. Sir Walter Scott describes the recognised capability...old Irish and Scotch custom is to make all movements Deisual, or sunwise, round houses and graves, and to turn their bodies in this way at the beginning... | |
 | Alexander Montgomerie - Scotland - 1887 - 504 pages
...always went wither shins. Nor has this superstitious belief been confined to the nations of the West. Mr Simpson, in his work ' Meeting the Sun,' says :...old Irish and Scotch custom is to make all movements Deisual or sunwise, round houses and graves, and to turn their bodies in this way at the beginning... | |
 | Alexander Montgomerie - Scotland - 1887 - 504 pages
...always went withershins. Nor has this superstitious belief been confined to the nations of the West. Mr Simpson, in his work ' Meeting the Sun,' says :...old Irish and Scotch custom is to make all movements Deisual or sunwise, round houses and graves, and to turn their bodies in this way at the beginning... | |
 | William Gregory Wood-Martin - Electronic books - 1902 - 466 pages
...movement was withershins. Witches in their dances and other pranks always, it is said, went untherihim. Mr. Simpson in his work, Meeting the Sun, says, '...Ceylon were also traversed round in the same way, imd the old Irish and Scotch custom is to make all movements Desittl, or sunwise, round houses and... | |
 | William Gregory Wood-Martin - Electronic books - 1902 - 480 pages
...went ivithenhins. Mr. Simpson in his work, Mseting the Sun, says, ' The Llama monk whirls his pr.iying cylinder in the way of the sun, and fears lest a stranger...old Irish and Scotch custom is to make all movements Desiul, or sunwise, round houses and graves, and to turn their bodies in this way at the beginning... | |
 | William Gregory Wood-Martin - Electronic books - 1902 - 490 pages
...toithers/iins. Mr. Simpson in his work, Meeting the Sun, says, ' The Llama monk whirls his pr.iying cylinder in the way of the sun, and fears lest a stranger...circuit of the Caaba in the same way. The ancient dogobas of India and Ceylon were also traversed round in the same way, and the old Irish and Scotch... | |
 | Vincent Stuckey Lean - Folklore - 1903 - 500 pages
...the South. The ploughman turns his horse's head so when yoking him. — Ulster Jour. Arch., ix. 22. The Llama monk whirls his praying cylinder in the...on the other, so as to make a circuit with the sun. Mahomedans make the circuit of the Caaba in the same way. The ancient dagobas of India and Ceylon were... | |
 | Evelyn Blantyre Simpson - Folklore - 1908 - 268 pages
...ill-conditioned, or to be possessed of certain uncanny, occult powers. In the Meeting of the Sun the author says: "The Llama monk whirls his praying cylinder...circuit of the Caaba in the same way. The ancient dagohas of India and Ceylon were also traversed round in the same way, and the old Irish and Scotch... | |
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Mr. Simpson in his work, Meeting the Sun, says, "The Llama monk whirls his praying cylinder in the way of the sun, and fears lest a stranger should get at it and turn it contrary, which would take from it all the virtue it had acquired. They also build... 