 ... purpose. However, by bribing his servants, they contrived to have them extinguished, and on that morning raised their fire. They then sacrificed a heifer, cutting in pieces and burning, while yet alive, the diseased part. They then lighted their own...  Deutsche Mythologie. [With] Anhang - Page 521by Jacob Ludwig C. [single works] Grimm - 1854Full view - About this book
 | Jacob Grimm - Germanic peoples - 1844 - 670 pages
...in pieces and burning, while yet alive, the diseased pari, they tben lighted their own hearlhs front the pile and ended by feasting on the remains. words of incantation %srrc repeated by an old man from Morven, wbo came over äs niastcr of the ceremonies, and wbo continucd... | |
 | Jacob Grimm - Germanic peoples - 1844 - 1338 pages
...cutting in pieces and burning, whilc yet alive, the diseased part. they then lighted their own hearlhs from the pile and ended by feasting on the remains. words of incantalion were repeated by an old man from Morven, who came over äs master of the ceremonies, and... | |
 | Jacob Grimm - Germanic peoples - 1854 - 674 pages
...heifer, cutting in pieces and burning, whiie yet alive, the diseased part. they then lighted their OVVH hearths from the pile and ended by feasting on the...words of incantation were repeated by an old man from Horven, who came over äs master of the ceremonies, and who continued speaking all the time the fire... | |
 | Charles Hardwick - England - 1872 - 338 pages
...incantation, though they esteemed it a wicked thing. They carried to the top of Carnmoor a wheel and nine spindles, long enough to produce fire by friction....were repeated by an old man from Morven, who came as the master of the ceremonies, and who continued speaking all the time the fire was being raised.... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - Anyi (African people) - 1891 - 448 pages
...ever, by bribing his servants, they contrived to have them extinguished, and on that morning raised the fire. They then sacrificed a heifer, cutting in pieces...was being raised. This man was living a beggar at Bellochrog. Asked to repeat the spell, he said the sin of repeating it once had brought him to beggary,... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - Anyi (African people) - 1891 - 438 pages
...ever, by bribing his servants, they contrived to have them extinguished, and on that morning raised tho fire. They then sacrificed a heifer, cutting in pieces...Words of incantation were repeated by an old man from Morveu, who came over as master of the ceremonies, and who continued speaking all the time the fire... | |
 | George Laurence Gomme - Ethnology - 1892 - 216 pages
...produce fire by friction. If the fire was not produced before noon the incantation lost its effect. They then sacrificed a heifer, cutting in pieces,...incantation were repeated by an old man from Morven, who continued speaking all the time the fire was being raised.5 Keating speaks of the custom 1 The great... | |
 | John H. King - Religions - 1892 - 320 pages
...The wheel was turned from east to west to produce fire by friction. They then sacrificed a heifer. Words of incantation were repeated by an old man from Morven, who continued speaking all the time the fire was being raised " (p. 52). Though somewhat differing in arrangement,... | |
 | James Edward Vaux - Folklore - 1894 - 376 pages
...out for what he considered a wrong purpose. However, by bribing his servants, they contrived to get them extinguished, and on that morning raised their...were repeated by an old man from Morven, who came as master of the ceremonies, and continued speaking all the time the tire was being raised. Asked to... | |
 | Scotland - 1896 - 596 pages
...thing." After describing this incantation, which was the ceremony known as Need-fire, he proceeds : — " They then sacrificed a heifer, cutting in pieces and...hearths from " the pile, and ended by feasting on the remains."-|Another example may be given which is very significant in its bearing on the question before... | |
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