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Page 157 - They kindle a fire, and dress a repast of eggs and milk in the consistence of a custard. They knead a cake of oatmeal, which is toasted at the embers against a stone. After the custard is eaten up, they divide...
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Page 157 - The rites begin with spilling some of the caudle on the ground, by way of libation: on that, every one takes a cake of oatmeal, upon which are raised nine square knobs, each dedicated to some particular being, the supposed preserver of their flocks and herds, or to some particular animal, the real destroyer of them: each person then turns his face to the fire, breaks off a knob, and flinging it over his shoulders, says, This I give to thee, preserve thou my horses; this to thee, preserve thou my...
Page 157 - ... against a stone. After the custard is eaten up, they divide the cake into so many portions, as similar as possible to one another, in size and shape as there are persons in the company. They daub one of these portions all over with charcoal until it be perfectly black ; they put all the bits of the cake into a bonnet ; every one blindfold draws out a portion.
Page 323 - To present a bull's head before a person at a feast, was, in the ancient turbulent times of Scotland, a common signal for his assassination. Thus, Lindsay of Pitscottie relates in his History, p. 17, that, ' efter the dinner was endit, once alle the delicate courses taken away, the Chancellor (Sir William Crichton) presentit the bullis head befoir the Earle of Douglas, in signe and toaken of condemnation to the death.
Bibliographic information
| Title | An etymological dictionary of the Scottish language, Volume 1 Volume 1 of An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: With a Dissertation on the Origin of the Scottish Language, John Jamieson An etymological dictionary of the Scottish language, David Donaldson New club series |
| Author | John Jamieson |
| Editors | John Longmuir, David Donaldson |
| Contributor | David Donaldson |
| Publisher | Gardner, 1879 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Feb 21, 2007 |
| Length | 328 pages |
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