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 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1880 - 892 pages
...pillar, cut its throat, and then roast it whole, skin, wool, etc. At mid-day, a struggle lakes place, at the risk of cut hands, for a slice, it being supposed...confer luck for the ensuing year on the fortunate devourcr. As an act of gallantry, in high esteem among the females, the young men >ometimcs fight their... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1890 - 978 pages
...pillar, cut its throat, and then roast it wfcole, skin, wool, etc. At mid-day, a struggle takes place, at the risk of cut hands, for a slice, it being supposed...on the fortunate devourer. As an act of gallantry, in high esteem among the females, the young men sometimes fight their way through the crowd to get... | |
 | George Laurence Gomme - Village communities - 1890 - 358 pages
...pillar, cut its throat, and then roasted it whole, skin, wool, &c. At midday a struggle took place, at the risk of cut hands, for a slice, it being supposed...confer luck for the ensuing year on the fortunate devourer.5 From these folklore fragments I suggest we may yet discover and piece together the surviving... | |
 | Jason Nelson Fradenburgh - Europe - 1891 - 478 pages
...pillar, cut its throat, and then roast it whole, skin, wool, etc. At midday a struggle takes place, at the risk of cut hands, for a slice, it being supposed...on the fortunate devourer. As an act of gallantry, in high esteem among the females, the young men sometimes fight their way through the crowd to get... | |
 | Joseph Jacobs, Alfred Trübner Nutt, Arthur Robinson Wright, William Crooke - Electronic journals - 1891 - 616 pages
...pillar, cut its throat, and then roasted it whole, skin, wool, etc. At midday a struggle took place, at the risk of cut hands, for a slice, it being supposed...confer luck for the ensuing year on the fortunate dcvourer. As an act of gallantry the young men sometimes fought their way through the crowd to get... | |
 | George Laurence Gomme - Social Science - 1892 - 252 pages
...pillar, cut its throat, and then roasted it whole, skin, wool, &c. At midday a struggle took place, at the risk of cut hands, for a slice, it being supposed...crowd to get a slice for the chosen amongst the young -vomen, all of whom, in their best dresses, attended the Bam Feast, as it was called. Dancing, wrestling,... | |
 | George Laurence Gomme - Ethnology - 1892 - 236 pages
...pillar, cut its throat, and then roasted it whole, skin, wool, etc. At midday a struggle took place, at the risk of cut hands, for a slice, it being supposed...way through the crowd to get a slice for the chosen among the young women, all of whom, in their best dresses, attended the Rarn Feast, as it was called.... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1897 - 912 pages
...pillar, cut its throat, and then roast it whole, skin, wool, etc. At midday, a struggle takes place, at the risk of cut hands, for a slice, it being supposed...on the fortunate devourer. As an act of gallantry, in high esteem among the females, the young men sometimes tight their way through the crowd to get... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1898 - 982 pages
...cut its throat, and then roast it whole, skin, wool, etc. At mid-day, a struggle take.« place, at the risk of cut hands, for a slice, it being supposed...the ensuing year on the fortunate devourer. As an net of gallantry, in high esteem among the females, the young men sometimes fight their way through... | |
 | Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer - Folklore - 1900 - 582 pages
...pillar, cut its throat, and then roasted it whole, skin, wool. &c. At midday a struggle took place, at the risk of cut hands, for a slice, it being supposed...women, all of whom, in their best dresses, attended the Earn Feast, as it was called. Dancing, wrestling, and other games, assisted by copious libations of... | |
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