 | George Fleming - Animals - 1871 - 588 pages
...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 flings it over his shoulder, saying, ' This I give to thee ! preserve thou my horses ;. this to thee... | |
 | Charles Isaac Elton - Druids and druidism - 1882 - 506 pages
...or to some particular animal, their real destroyer: each person then turns his face to the fire and breaks off a knob, and flinging it over his shoulder says ' This I give to thee, preserve thou my horses ; this to thee, preserve thou my sheep,' and so on. 1 Martin, Descr. West.... | |
 | Charles Isaac Elton - Druids and Druidism - 1882 - 512 pages
...or to some particular animal, their real destroyer: each person then turns his face to the fire and breaks off a knob, and flinging it over his shoulder says ' This I give to thee, preserve thou my horses ; this to thee, preserve thou my sheep,' and so on. 1 Martin, Descr. West.... | |
 | Charles Isaac Elton - Druids and Druidism - 1882 - 514 pages
...or to some particular animal, their real destroyer: each person then turns his face to the fire and breaks off a knob, and flinging it over his shoulder says ' This I give to thee, preserve thou my horses ; this to thee, preserve thou my sheep,' and so on. 1 Martin, Descr. West.... | |
 | John Collett (poet.) - 1883 - 236 pages
...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...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 sheep... | |
 | Alexander Mackenzie - 1884 - 776 pages
...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...fire, breaks off a knob, and flinging it over his shoulders, says, ' This I give to thce, preserve thou my horses ; this to thee, preserve thou my sheep,'... | |
 | Alexander Macbain - Celts - 1885 - 126 pages
...the supposed preserver of their flocks and herds, or to some particular animal, the real destroyer 97 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 sheep,'... | |
 | sir James MacNabb Campbell - 1885 - 540 pages
...particular being, the supposed preserver of their animals or destroyer of them. Each person turns his pan to the fire, breaks off a knob, and flinging it over his shoulders says : ' This I give to thce, oh ! wolf ; preserve my sheep.' ' This I give to thee, oh !... | |
 | William Howitt - Country life - 1888 - 412 pages
...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...over his shoulder, says — " This I give to thee ; preserve thou my sheep ; — this I give to thee ; preserve thou my horses:" and so on. After that... | |
 | English Dialect Society - 1888 - 508 pages
...each dedicated to some particular being, the supposed preserver of their flocks, or to some particular animal, the destroyer of them ; each person then turns his face to the fire, breaks off a knob, and Singing it over his shoulder, says — ' This Igivetothee! preserve thou my horses ! this to thee,... | |
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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... 
