Observations on Popular Antiquities: Chiefly Illustrating the Origin of Our Vulgar Customs, Ceremonies, and SuperstitionJohn Brand's almanac of British superstitions and customs was first published in 1777 as a heavily revised and annotated version of Henry Bourne's Antiquitates Vulgares (1725). Following the success of the book's initial reception, Brand continued to research English folklore with the intention of publishing fuller information. This two-volume version, published posthumously in 1813, was edited and expanded by Sir Henry Ellis. Brand's book is regarded as the foundation for folklore studies in England. |
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... Christ , indeed , was calculated to destroy its dominion and to restore Religion to its original lustre : -Yet , notwithstanding this , Superstition very soon found an entrance among Christians , and at length encreased to an enormous ...
... Christ , indeed , was calculated to destroy its dominion and to restore Religion to its original lustre : -Yet , notwithstanding this , Superstition very soon found an entrance among Christians , and at length encreased to an enormous ...
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... Christianity to the Gentile Nations , though the new Converts yielded through the force of Truth to conviction , yet ... Christian , or rather Papal Rome , has borrowed us ; though there can be little doubt but that the Customs I refer ...
... Christianity to the Gentile Nations , though the new Converts yielded through the force of Truth to conviction , yet ... Christian , or rather Papal Rome , has borrowed us ; though there can be little doubt but that the Customs I refer ...
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... Christian world from the times of Gentilisme . The superstition condemned in this by the antient Iola in the Gothick language signifies to make merry . Stillingfleet , ibid . There is a curious account of the manner in which the Romans ...
... Christian world from the times of Gentilisme . The superstition condemned in this by the antient Iola in the Gothick language signifies to make merry . Stillingfleet , ibid . There is a curious account of the manner in which the Romans ...
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... Christians , under pain of excommunication , from observing the calends , or first of January ( which wee now call New Yeare's Day ) as holy , and from sending abroad New Yeare's Gifts upon it , ( a custome now too frequent ; ) it being ...
... Christians , under pain of excommunication , from observing the calends , or first of January ( which wee now call New Yeare's Day ) as holy , and from sending abroad New Yeare's Gifts upon it , ( a custome now too frequent ; ) it being ...
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... Christian . fol . 35 b . f Thomas Randolph , in a curious letter to Dudley , Lord Leicester , dated Edin . 15 Jan. 1563 , mentions Lady Flemyng being " Queene of the Beene " on Twelfth Day . Pinkerton's Ancient Scot . Poems , vol . ii ...
... Christian . fol . 35 b . f Thomas Randolph , in a curious letter to Dudley , Lord Leicester , dated Edin . 15 Jan. 1563 , mentions Lady Flemyng being " Queene of the Beene " on Twelfth Day . Pinkerton's Ancient Scot . Poems , vol . ii ...
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