 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1853 - 690 pages
...the bits of the cake into a bonnet, and every one, blindfold, draws out a portion. The bonnetholder is entitled to the last bit. Whoever draws the black...Baal whose favour they mean to implore in rendering tlie year productive. The devoted person is compelled to leap three times over Hie flames." — (Armstrong.)... | |
 | Jacob Ludwig C. [single works] Grimm - 1854 - 728 pages
...the bits of the cake into a bonnet, and every one, blind fold, draws out a portion. the bonnetholder is entitled to the last bit. whoever draws the black...sacrificed to Baal, whose favour they mean to implore in ') Hyilii merkt auch TOD den Guebero an, dal's sie alljährlich ein feuer entzündeten. ") Bei, Bai.... | |
 | Jacob Grimm - Germanic peoples - 1854 - 674 pages
...the bits of the cake into a bonnet, and every one, blind fold , draws out a portion. the bonnetholder is entitled to the last bit. whoever draws the black...the devoted person, who is to be sacrificed to Baal, ichose favour they mean to implore in *) Hydc merkt auch TOD den Guebern an, dafa sie alljährlich... | |
 | William Winwood Reade - Druids and Druidism - 1861 - 276 pages
...until it is quite black. They put all the bits into a bonnet and every one, o blind-folded, draws. He who holds the bonnet is entitled to the last bit. Whoever draws the black morsel is the devoted person who is to be sacrificed to Baal, and is compelled to leap three times... | |
 | Walter Keating Kelly - Folk-lore, Aryan - 1863 - 332 pages
...the bits of the cake into a bonnet, and every one, blindfold, draws out a portion. The bonnet-holder is entitled to the last bit. Whoever draws the black...mean to implore in rendering the year productive. The devoted person is compelled to leap three times over the flames." Here, says Grimm, there is no... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1864 - 670 pages
...the bits of the cake into a bonnet, and every one, blindfoldl, draws out a portion. The bonnet-holder is entitled to the last bit. Whoever draws the black...mean to implore in rendering the year productive. The devoted person is compelled to leap three times over the flames.' " ' Here,' says Grimm, ' there... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1864 - 672 pages
...the bits of the cake into a bonnet, and every one, blindfold, draws out a portion. The bonnet-holder is entitled to the last bit. Whoever draws the black...to be sacrificed to Baal, whose favour they mean to implode in rendering the year productive. The devoted person is compelled to leap three times over... | |
 | Forbes Leslie - Scotland - 1866 - 352 pages
...charcoal until it be perfectly black. They put all the bits of cake into a bonnet. Every one, blindfold, draws out a -portion. He who holds the bonnet is entitled...sustenance of man and beast There is little doubt of human sacrifices having been once offered in tlus country as well as in the East, although they now... | |
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Whoever draws the black bit is the devoted person who is to be sacrificed to Baal, whose favour they mean to implore, in rendering the year productive of the sustenance of man and beast. There is little doubt... 
