Observations on Popular Antiquities: Chiefly Illustrating the Origin of Our Vulgar Customs, Ceremonies, and Supersititions, Volum 2Charles Knight and Company, 1841 |
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... Body Christening Customs • Marriage Customs and Ceremonies : Sin Eaters . Betrothing Customs · Mortuaries Ring and Bride - Cake . Rush Rings Bride Favours Bride Maids Bridegroom Men Strewing Herbs , Flowers , or Rushes Laying out or ...
... Body Christening Customs • Marriage Customs and Ceremonies : Sin Eaters . Betrothing Customs · Mortuaries Ring and Bride - Cake . Rush Rings Bride Favours Bride Maids Bridegroom Men Strewing Herbs , Flowers , or Rushes Laying out or ...
Pàgina 14
... body , he commonly leads the swarth in reaping and mowing . It is customary to give Gloves to Reapers , especially where the Wheat is thistly . As to crying a Largess , they need not be re- minded of it in these our days , whatever they ...
... body , he commonly leads the swarth in reaping and mowing . It is customary to give Gloves to Reapers , especially where the Wheat is thistly . As to crying a Largess , they need not be re- minded of it in these our days , whatever they ...
Pàgina 35
... body . " See " A strange Metamorphosis of Man transformed into a Wildernesse , deciphered in Characters , " 12mo . Lond . 1634 , Signat . B. 1. b . IN Mr. Nichols's Illustrations of the Man- ners and Expences of Ancient Times in Eng ...
... body . " See " A strange Metamorphosis of Man transformed into a Wildernesse , deciphered in Characters , " 12mo . Lond . 1634 , Signat . B. 1. b . IN Mr. Nichols's Illustrations of the Man- ners and Expences of Ancient Times in Eng ...
Pàgina 37
... body freely I bequeath to th ' Pot , Decently to be boil'd ; and for its Tomb , Let it be buried in some hungry womb . Item , Executors I will have none But he that on my side laid Seven to One , And like a Gentleman that he may live ...
... body freely I bequeath to th ' Pot , Decently to be boil'd ; and for its Tomb , Let it be buried in some hungry womb . Item , Executors I will have none But he that on my side laid Seven to One , And like a Gentleman that he may live ...
Pàgina 41
... Bodies Child to be set , brought , or laid before any Woman de- livered of Child in the place of her natural Child , so far forth as I can know and under- stand . Also I will not use any kind of Sor- cery ( 6 ) or Incantation in the ...
... Bodies Child to be set , brought , or laid before any Woman de- livered of Child in the place of her natural Child , so far forth as I can know and under- stand . Also I will not use any kind of Sor- cery ( 6 ) or Incantation in the ...
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Observations on Popular Antiquities: Chiefly Illustrating the Origin of Our ... John Brand Visualització completa - 1877 |
Observations on Popular Antiquities Chiefly Illustrating the Origin of Our ... John Brand,Henry Ellis Visualització completa - 1900 |
Observations on Popular Antiquities Chiefly Illustrating the Origin of Our ... John Brand,Henry Ellis Visualització completa - 1900 |
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Account of Scotland Æneid ancient antiquity appears BARLEY-BREAK bell Borrowing Days bride bridegroom burial buried Cake called ceremony Christians church churchyard Cock corpse Cuckold curious custom dance dead death deceased doth drink Edinb England entitled fair fairies feast find the following flowers following passage friends funeral garlands Gent give Gloves grave hand Harvest hath head Hesperides History honour horns Hudibras husband Ibid Joan Sanderson Julius Pollux King Lady Lond London Lord maids manner marriage married mentioned Month's Mind neighbours Newcastle-upon-Tyne night Nine Men's Morris North NOTES observed occasion old play parish person pledge Poems prayers quæ Queen quod Reed's edit Reginald Scot Ring Rosemary round says Scotland Scottish Language Shaksp Shakspeare Signat Skimmington speaking sport Statistical Account strewed Strutt superstition tells thou tion unlucky unto Wake Wedding wine woman women word yew-trees
Passatges populars
Pàgina 31 - 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, Th' extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine ; and of the truth herein This present object made probation.
Pàgina 288 - She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
Pàgina 233 - Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race Disporting on thy margent green The paths of pleasure trace ; Who foremost now delight to cleave With pliant arm, thy glassy wave...
Pàgina 288 - O'er ladies' lips, who straight on kisses dream; Which oft the angry Mab with blisters plagues, Because their breaths with sweetmeats tainted are.
Pàgina 292 - Thro' bogs, thro' brakes ; Or else, unseene, with them I go, All in the nicke To play some tricke And frolicke it, with ho, ho, ho ! Sometimes I meete them like a man ; Sometimes, an ox, sometimes, a hound ; And to a horse I turn me can ; To trip and trot about them round. But if, to ride, My backe they stride, More swift than wind away I go, Ore hedge and lands, Thro...
Pàgina 152 - And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness: And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.
Pàgina 288 - Time out of mind the fairies' coach-makers. And in this state she gallops night by night Through lovers...
Pàgina 288 - Through lovers' brains, and then they dream of love: On courtiers' knees, that dream on court'sies straight: O'er lawyers' fingers, who straight dream on fees: O'er ladies...
Pàgina 14 - By whose tough labours, and rough hands, We rip up first, then reap our lands. Crown'd with the eares of corne, now come, And, to the Pipe, sing Harvest home.
Pàgina 32 - 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 dare 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.