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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... "
Folk Lore: Or, Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland Within this Century - Page 163
by James Napier - 1879 - 190 pages
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Things: A Volume of Objects Devised by Man's Genius which are the Measure of ...

Geoffrey Grigson, Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith - Technology - 1957 - 480 pages
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Edward Lhuyd in the Scottish Highlands, 1699-1700

John Lorne Campbell, Derick S. Thomson - Scottish Gaelic philology - 1963 - 384 pages
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Portrait of the Highlands

William Douglas Simpson - Travel - 1969 - 320 pages
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A Midsummer Eve's Dream: Variations on a Theme by William Dunbar

Alec Derwent Hope - Poetry - 1970 - 360 pages
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Beyond the Highland Line: Three Journals of Travel in Eighteenth Century ...

A. J. Youngson - Social Science - 1974 - 296 pages
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Ovid, Volume 6

Ovid - 1967 - 510 pages
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Medii Aevi Kalendarium: Or, Dates, Charters, and Customs of the ..., Volume 1

Robert Thomas Hampson - Calendar - 1978 - 518 pages
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An Introduction to Mythology (1921)

Lewis Spence - Social Science - 1995 - 335 pages
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion

James George Frazer - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1995 - 880 pages
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The Veil of Isis: Mysteries of the Druids

W. Winwood Reade - Religion - 1996 - 260 pages
...particular being, the supposed preserver of their flocks and herbs, or to some particular animal the real destroyer of them. Each person then turns his face...flinging it over his shoulder, says: This I give to thee, preserve thou my horses; this I give to thee, preserve thou my sheep, and so on. After that, they use...
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