Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly Illustrating the Origin of Our Vulgar and Provincial Customs, Ceremonies, and Superstitions, Volume 3Bohn, 1872 |
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Account of Scotland Alexander Ross ancient apparition appear ash tree Astrologaster astrologers bewitched bird body called candle charms child commonly crow cure curious custom dæmon dead death denotes devil diseases divination dogs doth dream Duncan Campbell edit Engravings evil fire following passage Gaule Gent ghosts gipsies hand hanged hath head History Honest Whore horses Hudibras Ibid King king's evil Lond Lord luck Mag-astromancers Posed mole moon nails neck night Notes observes omen ominous parish person Pliny Posed and Puzzel'd practised presages prognostic quæ quod rain ravens Reginald Scot salt says Grose Scotland second sight seen signifies Sir Thomas Browne sneezing speaking spirit spit Statistical Account stone superstition supposed tells Theocritus things thou tion told Translated tree unlucky unto vols vulgar weather Willsford witchcraft witches women words wren
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Page 179 - If I beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness ; And my heart hath been secretly enticed, Or my mouth hath kissed my hand : This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge : For I should have denied the God that is above.
Page 73 - Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night ; And for the day confined to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature Are burnt and purged away.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 215 - One for sorrow, Two for mirth, Three for a wedding, Four for a birth— Four on 'em!