Accordingly, exactly at midnight, the fires began to appear : and taking the advantage of going up to the leads of the house, which had a widely extended view, I saw on a radius of thirty miles, all around, the fires burning on every eminence which the... Nature - Page 225edited by - 1906Full view - About this book
| John Brand - 1849 - 574 pages
...view, I saw on a radius of thirty miles, all around, the fires burning on every eminence which the country afforded. I had a farther satisfaction in...the whole was conducted with religious solemnity." This is at the end of some Reflections by the late Rev. Donald M 'Queen, of Kilmuir, in the Isle of... | |
| John Brand - Christian antiquities - 1853 - 580 pages
...view, I saw on a radius of thirty miles, all around, the fires burning on every eminence which the country afforded. I had a farther satisfaction in...through the fire ; and the whole was conducted with religions solemnity." This is at the end of some Reflections by the late Rev. Donald M'Queen, of Kilmuir,... | |
| John Brand - 1853 - 576 pages
...farther satisfaction in learning, from undoubted authority, that the people danced round the f res, and at the close went through these fires, and made...the whole was conducted with religious solemnity." This is at the end of some Reflections by the late Rev. Donald M 'Queen, of Kilmuir, in the Isle of... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1906 - 1046 pages
...authority, that the people danced round the fires, and at the close went through these fires, »nd made their sons and daughters, together with their...been observed with reference to these fire festivals that1 although there were undoubtedly four, in May, August, November, and February, those in May and... | |
| Wilhelm Mannhardt - Agriculture - 1875 - 668 pages
...1795 p. 124, daß er 1782 auf der Insel Sky das am 21. Juni angezündete Mittsommerfeuer beobachtete: „the people danced round the fires and at the close...the whole was conducted with religious solemnity." Borlase (Antiquities of. Cornwall p. 130) beschreibt das Goluan genannte Mittsommerfeuer am St. Johannisabend... | |
| Wilhelm Mannhardt - Agriculture - 1875 - 1128 pages
...Sky das am 21. Juni angezündete Mittsommerfeuer beobachtete: „the people dauced round the t'ires and at the close went through these fires and made...the whole was conducted with religious solemnity." Borlase (Antiquities of. Cornwall p. 130) beschreibt das Goluan genannte Mittsommerfeuer am St. Johanuisabeud... | |
| Wilhelm Mannhardt - Germany - 1875 - 682 pages
...Mittsommerfeuer beobachtete: „the people danced round the fires and at the elose went through thcse fires aud made their sons and daughters together with their...the whole was conducted with religious solemnity." Borlase (Antiquities of. Cornwall p. 130) beschreibt das Goluan genannte Mittsommerfeuer am St. Johannisabend... | |
| Johann Wilhelm E. Mannhardt - 1875 - 1086 pages
...round the fires and at the dose went throagh these fires and made theirsons and daughters tojrether with their cattle pass through the fire, and the whole was conducted with religious solemnity." Borlasc (Antiquities of. Cornwall p. 130) beschreibt das Goluan genannte Mitt""inmerfeuer am St. Jnhannisabend... | |
| Wilhelm Mannhardt - Agriculture - 1875 - 1086 pages
...beobachtete: „the peoplc dauced round the fires and at tue close went through these fircs and made theirsons and daughters ' together with their cattle pass through the fire, and the whole was conductcd with religious solemnity." Borlase (Antiquities of. Cornwall p. 130) beschreibt das Goluan... | |
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