Observations on popular antiquities: including the whole of mr. Bourne's Antiquitates vulgares. revised by sir H. Ellis, Volum 31855 |
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... horse : in a secondary sense , also , to foretell and pro- phesy ; because the Germans , as Tacitus informs us , used to divine and foretell things to come by the whinnying and neighing of their horses . His words are " hinnitu et ...
... horse : in a secondary sense , also , to foretell and pro- phesy ; because the Germans , as Tacitus informs us , used to divine and foretell things to come by the whinnying and neighing of their horses . His words are " hinnitu et ...
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... horse - shoe , hollow flint . " Aubrey tells us , in his Miscellanies , p . 148 , that “ it is a thing very common to nail horseshoes on the thresholds of doors , which is to hinder the power of witches that enter into the house . Most ...
... horse - shoe , hollow flint . " Aubrey tells us , in his Miscellanies , p . 148 , that “ it is a thing very common to nail horseshoes on the thresholds of doors , which is to hinder the power of witches that enter into the house . Most ...
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... horse - shooe may never be pul'd from your threshold , " occurs among the good wishes introduced by Holiday in his comedy of the Marriage of the Arts , Sig . E b . Nailing of horseshoes seems to have been practised as well to keep ...
... horse - shooe may never be pul'd from your threshold , " occurs among the good wishes introduced by Holiday in his comedy of the Marriage of the Arts , Sig . E b . Nailing of horseshoes seems to have been practised as well to keep ...
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... horse- shoe , which had either been found or stolen , placed on the chimney - hearth , would bring good luck to their houses . They also believed that horses ' dung , dropped before the house , and put fresh behind the door , would ...
... horse- shoe , which had either been found or stolen , placed on the chimney - hearth , would bring good luck to their houses . They also believed that horses ' dung , dropped before the house , and put fresh behind the door , would ...
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... horse . " See Memorable Things noted in the Description of the World , p . 112. Ibid . p . 113 , we read : " The hoofs of dead horses they accounted and held sacred . " to the sick man's room , and , miraculous to SORCERY OR WITCHCRAFT .
... horse . " See Memorable Things noted in the Description of the World , p . 112. Ibid . p . 113 , we read : " The hoofs of dead horses they accounted and held sacred . " to the sick man's room , and , miraculous to SORCERY OR WITCHCRAFT .
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Side 396 - Lead then, said Eve. He leading swiftly roll'd In tangles, and made intricate seem straight. To mischief swift. Hope elevates, and joy Brightens his crest. As when a wandering fire, Compact of unctuous vapour, which the night Condenses, and the cold environs round, Kindled through agitation to a flame, Which oft, they say, some evil spirit attends, Hovering and blazing with delusive light, Misleads the amazed night-wanderer from his way To bogs and mires, and oft through pond or pool, There swallow'd...
Side 303 - Himself best knows : but strangely-visited people, All swoln and ulcerous, pitiful to the eye, The mere despair of surgery, he cures ; Hanging a golden stamp about their necks, Put on with holy prayers : and 'tis spoken, To the succeeding royalty he leaves The healing benediction.
Side 242 - O' th' compass in their bones and joints, Can by their pangs and aches find All turns and changes of the wind, And better than by Napier's bones Feel in their own the age of moons...
Side 153 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold.
Side 312 - Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Bless the bed that I lie on. Four corners to my bed, Four angels round my head; One to watch and one to pray And two to bear my soul away.
Side 315 - There's fennel for you, and columbines; there's rue for you; and here's some for me; we may call it herb of grace o' Sundays. O, you must wear your rue with a difference.
Side 73 - Till the foul crimes, done in my days of nature, Are burnt and purged away. But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul ; freeze thy young blood ; Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres ; Thy...
Side 192 - CALL for the robin-redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Call unto his funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm And (when gay tombs are...
Side 159 - To see the phantom train their secret work prepare. (To monarchs dear, some hundred miles astray, Oft have they seen Fate give the fatal blow ! The seer, in Sky, shriek'd as the blood did flow, When headless Charles warm on the scaffold lay...
Side 292 - ... it is supposed that a shrewmouse is of so baneful and deleterious a nature, that wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow, or sheep, the suffering animal is afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with the losa of the use of the limb.