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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Pàgina 3
... called Vigilia , that is waking in English , and it is called Evyn , for at evyn they were wont to come to Chirche . " Bishop Hall , in his Triumphs of Rome , alludes as follows to these convivial enter- tainments : " What should I ...
... called Vigilia , that is waking in English , and it is called Evyn , for at evyn they were wont to come to Chirche . " Bishop Hall , in his Triumphs of Rome , alludes as follows to these convivial enter- tainments : " What should I ...
Pàgina 11
... called as it is said à vacando , the tutelar Deity , as it were , of rest and ease ) , among the ancients , was the name of the goddess to whom rustics sacri- ficed at the conclusion of harvest . Moresin tells us ( 4 ) that Popery , in ...
... called as it is said à vacando , the tutelar Deity , as it were , of rest and ease ) , among the ancients , was the name of the goddess to whom rustics sacri- ficed at the conclusion of harvest . Moresin tells us ( 4 ) that Popery , in ...
Pàgina 12
... called with us a Mell , ( 10 ) wherewith corn was anciently reduced to meal in a mortar . There was also a Churn Supper , or more properly a Kern Supper , ( so they pronounce it vulgarly in Northumberland , ) and a shout- ing the Church ...
... called with us a Mell , ( 10 ) wherewith corn was anciently reduced to meal in a mortar . There was also a Churn Supper , or more properly a Kern Supper , ( so they pronounce it vulgarly in Northumberland , ) and a shout- ing the Church ...
Pàgina 15
... called a Harvest Doll , or Kern Baby . This northern word is plainly a corruption of Corn Baby , or Image , as is the Kern Supper , which we shall presently consider , of Corn Supper . In Carew's Survey of Cornwall , p . 20 b , " an ill ...
... called a Harvest Doll , or Kern Baby . This northern word is plainly a corruption of Corn Baby , or Image , as is the Kern Supper , which we shall presently consider , of Corn Supper . In Carew's Survey of Cornwall , p . 20 b , " an ill ...
Pàgina 16
... called , I have seen a Clown dressed in woman's clothes , having his face painted , his head decorated with ears of corn , and bearing about him other symbols of Ceres , carried in a waggon , with great pomp and loud shouts , through ...
... called , I have seen a Clown dressed in woman's clothes , having his face painted , his head decorated with ears of corn , and bearing about him other symbols of Ceres , carried in a waggon , with great pomp and loud shouts , through ...
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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.