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... ancient Philosophers on that Subject - Inquiry into the Respect due to such Tales in modern Times -Evidence of a Ghost against a Murderer - Ghost of Sir George Vil- liers - Story of Earl St. Vincent - of a British General Officer - of ...
... ancient Philosophers on that Subject - Inquiry into the Respect due to such Tales in modern Times -Evidence of a Ghost against a Murderer - Ghost of Sir George Vil- liers - Story of Earl St. Vincent - of a British General Officer - of ...
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... ancients supposed that they saw their deities Castor and Pollux fighting in the van for their encouragement ; the heathen Scandinavian beheld the Choosers of the slain ; and the Catholics were no less easily led to recognise the warlike ...
... ancients supposed that they saw their deities Castor and Pollux fighting in the van for their encouragement ; the heathen Scandinavian beheld the Choosers of the slain ; and the Catholics were no less easily led to recognise the warlike ...
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... ancient authors , who pretend to treat of the wonders of na- tural magic , give receipts for calling up phantoms . The lighting lamps fed by peculiar kinds of medicated oil , and the use of suffumigations of strong and deleterious herbs ...
... ancient authors , who pretend to treat of the wonders of na- tural magic , give receipts for calling up phantoms . The lighting lamps fed by peculiar kinds of medicated oil , and the use of suffumigations of strong and deleterious herbs ...
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... ancient Europe , who , although their skill and power might be safely despised , as long as they confined themselves to their charms and spells , were very apt to eke out their capacity of mischief by the use of actual poison , so that ...
... ancient Europe , who , although their skill and power might be safely despised , as long as they confined themselves to their charms and spells , were very apt to eke out their capacity of mischief by the use of actual poison , so that ...
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... this inquiry , endea vour to show that many of the particular articles of the popular belief respecting magic and witchcraft G were derived from the opinions which the ancient heathens entertained DEMONOLOGY AND WITCHCRAFT . 73.
... this inquiry , endea vour to show that many of the particular articles of the popular belief respecting magic and witchcraft G were derived from the opinions which the ancient heathens entertained DEMONOLOGY AND WITCHCRAFT . 73.
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Page 61 - And sullen Moloch fled, Hath left in shadows dread His burning idol all of blackest hue ; In vain with cymbals' ring They call the grisly king, In dismal dance about the furnace blue : The brutish gods of Nile as fast, Isis and Orus, and the dog Anubis, haste.
Page 50 - There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, "Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
Page 147 - Witness those rings and roundelays Of theirs, which yet remain, Were footed in Queen Mary's days On many a grassy plain; But since of late, Elizabeth And, later, James came in, They never danced on any heath As when the time hath been.
Page 42 - Thro ilka bore the beams were glancing, And loud resounded mirth and dancing. Inspiring bold John Barleycorn, What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi tippenny, we fear nae evil; Wi usquabae, we'll face the Devil!
Page 146 - FAREWELL rewards and fairies, Good housewives now may say, For now foul sluts in dairies Do fare as well as they. And though they sweep their hearths no less Than maids were wont to do, Yet who of late, for cleanliness, Finds sixpence in her shoe ? Lament, lament, old abbeys, The fairies lost command ; They did but change priests...
Page 136 - Subterranean and for the most part Invisible People heretofore going under the name of Elves, Fawnes, and Fairies, or the like."* In this discourse, the author,
Page 35 - Not long after the death of a late illustrious poet, who had filled, while living, a great station in the eye of the public, a literary friend, to whom the deceased had been well known, was engaged during the darkening twilight of an autumn evening in perusing one of the publications which professed to detail the habits and opinions of the distinguished individual who was now no more. As the reader had enjoyed the intimacy of the deceased to a considerable degree he was deeply interested in the publication,...
Page 303 - ... on his mind, to make a clear conscience as far as confession could do it. The criminal fetched a deep groan, and declared that he was unable longer to endure the life which he had led for years. He then confessed the murder of the drummer, and added, that as a considerable reward had been offered, he wished his comrade to deliver him up to the magistrates of Salisbury, as he would desire a shipmate to profit by his fate, which he was now convinced was inevitable.
Page 60 - The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
Page 36 - Their sitting-room opened into an entrance-hall rather fantastically fitted up with articles of armor, skins of wild animals, and the like. It was when laying down his book, and passing into this hall, through which the moon was beginning to shine, that the individual of whom I speak saw right before him, and in a standing posture, the exact representation of his departed friend, whose recollection had been so strongly Drought to his imagination.