Faiths and Folklore of the British Isles: A Descriptive and Historical Dictionary of the Superstitions, Beliefs and Popular Customs of England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland, from Norman Times to the End of the Nineteenth Century, with Classical and Foreign Analogues, Volume 1 |
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Page 161
... eggs in ; leaving the care of its young to a wrong parent ; but Juvenal , in his 6th Satire , with more justice , gives the infamy to the bird in whose nest the supposititious eggs were layed , 66 The ' Tu tibi tunc Curruca places ...
... eggs in ; leaving the care of its young to a wrong parent ; but Juvenal , in his 6th Satire , with more justice , gives the infamy to the bird in whose nest the supposititious eggs were layed , 66 The ' Tu tibi tunc Curruca places ...
Page 194
... Eggs , or Ova Anguina . -The ancient Britons , says Pennant , Zoo- logy , iii . 31 , had a strange superstition in respect of the viper , and of which there still remained in his time ( if it is even yet extinct ) in Wales a strong ...
... Eggs , or Ova Anguina . -The ancient Britons , says Pennant , Zoo- logy , iii . 31 , had a strange superstition in respect of the viper , and of which there still remained in his time ( if it is even yet extinct ) in Wales a strong ...
Page 205
... Egg - Feast . Novelties in Easter eggs are constantly introduced from year to year in the English market . For 1903 they ad- vertised natural eggs , chocolate eggs , plo- ver's eggs , wooden eggs with snakes , globes , skipping ropes ...
... Egg - Feast . Novelties in Easter eggs are constantly introduced from year to year in the English market . For 1903 they ad- vertised natural eggs , chocolate eggs , plo- ver's eggs , wooden eggs with snakes , globes , skipping ropes ...
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