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The Early Races of Scotland and Their Monuments - Page 121
by Forbes Leslie - 1866
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Observations on popular antiquities: including the whole of mr ..., Volume 1

John Brand - 1849 - 574 pages
...knead a cake of oatmeal, which is toasted at the embers 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, M there are persons in the company. They daub one of these portions all over with charcoal until it...
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Observations on popular antiquities: including the whole of mr ..., Volume 1

John Brand - 1853 - 576 pages
...knead a cake of oatmeal, which is toasted at the embers against a stone. After the custard is eaten up, they divide the cake into so many portions, as similar...until it be perfectly black. They put all the bits of the cake into a bonnet. Every one, blindfold, draws out a portion. He who holds the bonnet is entitled...
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Faust: a tragedy, Volume 1

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1853 - 690 pages
...which is toasted at the embers against a stone. After the custard is eaten up, they divide the cake in so many portions, as similar as possible to one another...persons in the company. They daub one of these portions with charcoal until it is perfectly black. They then put all the bits of the cake into a bonnet, and...
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Deutsche Mythologie. [With] Anhang, Volume 1

Jacob Ludwig C. [single works] Grimm - 1854 - 728 pages
...divide the cake in so many portions. äs similar äs possible to one another in size and shape, äs there are persons in the Company, they daub one of these portions with charcoal until it is perfectly blaok. they then put all the bits of the cake into a bonnet, and...
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The Veil of Isis, Or, The Mysteries of the Druids

William Winwood Reade - Druids and Druidism - 1861 - 276 pages
...against a stone. They divide this .cake into so many portions (as similar as possible to each other in size and shape) as there are persons in the company....of these portions all over with charcoal until it is quite black. They put all the bits into a bonnet and every one, o blind-folded, draws. He who holds...
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Curiosities of Indo-European Tradition and Folk-lore

Walter Keating Kelly - Folk-lore, Aryan - 1863 - 332 pages
...which is toasted in the embers against a stone. After the custard is eaten up, they divide the cake in so many portions, as similar as possible to one another...persons in the company. They daub one of these portions with charcoal until it is perfectly black. They then put all the bits of the cake into a bonnet, and...
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 56

Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1864 - 702 pages
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 56

Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1864 - 672 pages
...stone. After the custard is eaten up they divide the cake in so many portions, as similar as possible in size and shape, as there are persons in the company. They daub one of these portions with charcoal until it is perfectly black. They then put all the bits of the cake into a bonnet, and...
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for ..., Volume 2

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1868 - 858 pages
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Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge, Volume 2

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1868 - 872 pages
...acainst a stone. After the custard is eaten up, they divide the cake in so many portions, as similar тл possible to one another in size and shape, as there...persons in the company. They daub one of these portions with charcoal until it is perfectly black. They then put all the bits of the cake into a bnnnet, and...
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