Credulities Past and Present: Including the Sea and Seamen, Miners, Amulets and Talismans, Rings, Word and Letter Divination, Numbers, Trials, Exorcising and Blessing of Animals, Birds, Eggs, and LuckChatto and Windus, 1898 - 560 pages |
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A. B. GROSART afterwards alludes amulets ancient animals appears beast believed bell bird Bishop blessed Bluecap body called century charm church cloth extra cloth limp cock colour considered cross crow Crown 8vo cuckoo curious custom DAYES dead death Demy 8vo divination Edited eggs evil father favour Fcap fire fish fishermen fortune Friday Frontispiece gold Greek hand hath head heard heaven holy HUME NISBET ill-luck illustrated boards killed King Koshchei Lady legend letters Lord Love luck lucky magpie marriage master mentions miners nest never night Novels observes omen person Post 8vo prayers priest Queen Reginald Scot relates remarks ring Romans round Sadko sailors saint says Scotland seen seven ship sneeze spirit STANLEY WOOD stone storm story strange superstition supposed talisman tells thee thou tion told took unlucky vessel Vols voyage wind woman words
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Page 280 - Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man ; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
Page 404 - And then it started, like a guilty thing Upon a fearful summons. I have heard The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn, Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat Awake the god of day; and at his warning. Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air, The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine; and of the truth herein This present object made probation.
Page 99 - No STIR in the air, no stir in the sea: The ship was still as she could be; Her sails from heaven received no motion; Her keel was steady in the ocean. Without either sign or sound of their shock, The waves flowed over the Inchcape Rock; So little they rose, so little they fell, They did not move the Inchcape Bell. The...
Page 404 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.
Page 99 - On a buoy in the storm it floated and swung, And over the waves its warning rung. When the Rock was hid by the surge's swell, The mariners heard the warning Bell ; And then they knew the perilous Rock, And blest the Abbot of Aberbrothok.
Page 85 - twas like all instruments, Now like a lonely flute; And now it is an angel's song, That makes the Heavens be mute.
Page 99 - Down sunk the Bell with a gurgling sound; The bubbles rose and burst around: Quoth Sir Ralph, "The next who comes to the Rock Won't bless the Abbot of Aberbrothok.
Page 284 - And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Page 419 - The nightingale, as soon as April bringeth Unto her rested sense a perfect waking, While late bare earth, proud of new clothing, springeth, Sings out her woes, a thorn her song-book making, And mournfully bewailing, Her throat in tunes expresseth What grief her breast oppresseth For Tereus' force on her chaste will prevailing.
Page 8 - Bring oil to fire, snow to their colder moods; Renege, affirm, and turn their halcyon beaks With every gale and vary of their masters, Knowing nought, like dogs, but following.