 | Robert Forsyth - Architecture - 1806 - 656 pages
...imitation of the apparent diumal Antiquities, motion of the sun. When the dead are laid in the earth, the grave is approached by going round in the same manner. The bride is conducted to her future spouse in thepresence of the minister ; and the glass goes round a company in the course... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 414 pages
...side, in imitation of the apparent diurnal motion of the sun. When the dead are laid in the earth, the grave is approached by going round in the same manner. The bride is conducted to her future spouse, in the presence of the minister, and the glass goes round a company, in the course... | |
 | 1829 - 762 pages
...south side, in imitation of the apparent diurnal motion of the snn. When the dead are placed in the grave, the grave is approached by going round in the same manner. The bride, too, is conducted to her future spouse, in the presence of the minister, and the glass goes round in... | |
 | William Gregory Wood-Martin - Electronic books - 1902 - 480 pages
...hands and dancing three times round it south- ways, or according to the course of the sun. At haptisms and marriages they walked three times round the church...relation to the sun, all pointing to a lingering ray of sun-worship." — Folk-Lore, by James Napier, FRSE, pp. 133, 135. Sir Walter Scott, in his tale of... | |
 | William Gregory Wood-Martin - Electronic books - 1902 - 466 pages
...consecrated fountain, approach it by going round the place from east to west on the south side. AVhen the dead are laid in their grave, the grave is approached...relation to the sun, all pointing to a lingering ray of sun-worship." — Folk-Lore, by James Napier, FHSE, pp. 133, 135. Sir Walter Scott, in his tale of... | |
 | William Gregory Wood-Martin - Electronic books - 1902 - 490 pages
...to west on the south side. When the dead are laid in their grave, the grave is approached by guing round in the same manner. The bride is conducted to...relation to the sun, all pointing to a lingering ray of sun-worship." — folk-Lort, by James Napier, FRSE, pp. 133, 135. Sir Walter Scott, in his tale of... | |
 | Evelyn Blantyre Simpson - Folklore - 1908 - 268 pages
...or sunwise. In parts of our native land, when the dead are laid in their graves, their resting-place is approached by going round in the same manner. The bride is conducted to her future husband in the presence of the minister round the company east to west on the south side.... | |
 | James George Frazer - Magic - 1913 - 382 pages
...side, in imitation of the apparent diurnal motion of the sun. When the dead are laid in the earth, the grave is approached by going round in the same manner. The bride is conducted to her future spouse, in the presence of the minister, and the glass goes round a company, in the course... | |
 | 1902 - 548 pages
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Highlander goes to bathe, or to drink waters out of a consecrated fountain, he must always approach by going round the place, from east to west on the south side, in imitation of the apparent diurnal motion of the sun. When the dead are laid in the earth,... 