 | Edward Burt - Highlands (Scotland) - 1822 - 394 pages
...(of which I seemed to think but slightly), were to one of that clan the greatest of all provocations. In a bargain between two Highlanders, each of them...wets the ball of his thumb with his mouth, and, then joining them together, it is esteemed a very binding act;f but, in more solemn engagements, they take... | |
 | Alexander Hislop (publisher) - 1874 - 786 pages
...a pound weight of candles, six pennies, or one halfpenny sterling. — Cleland. A HIGHLAND BARGAIN. In a bargain between two Highlanders, each of them...wets the ball of his thumb with his mouth, and then joining them together, it is esteemed a very binding act. — Burt, JOHN SPEIR'S MONUMENT. Here lies... | |
 | Edward Burt - 1876 - 378 pages
...(of which I seem to think but slightly), were to one of that Clan the greatest of all Provocations. In a Bargain between two Highlanders, each of them...wets the Ball of his Thumb with his Mouth, and then joining them together, it is esteemed a very binding Act ; but in more solemn Engagements, they take... | |
 | Edward Burt - Highlands (Scotland) - 1876 - 408 pages
...(of which I seem to think but slightly), were to one of that Clan the greatest of all Provocations. In a Bargain between two Highlanders, each of them...wets the Ball of his Thumb with his Mouth, and then joining them together, it is esteemed a very binding Act ; but in more solemn Engagements, they take... | |
 | James Napier - Folklore - 1879 - 210 pages
...getting upon a gate or style and sitting astride, they say— " All hail to the moon, all hail to thee, 1 prithee good moon declare to me This very night who...of the practices of men, make use of the spittle. V/hen playing at games of chance, such as odds or evens, something or nothing, etc., before the player... | |
 | 1741 - 698 pages
...accidents, that the reft of theworld are well fatisfied proceed from natural caufes.When a bargain is made between two Highlanders, each of them wets the ball of his thumb with his mouth, and then joining them together the compact is inviolable. On a fudden alarm and danger of diftrefs to the chief,... | |
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Flaccus says:--"A grandmother or a superstitious aunt has taken baby from his cradle, and is charming his forehead and his slavering lips against mischief by the joint action of her middle finger and her purifying spittle." Here we find that it is not... 