Observations on popular antiquities: including the whole of mr. Bourne's Antiquitates vulgares. revised by sir H. Ellis, Volume 31855 |
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... says , p . 10 : " Some say the devill was the first witch when he plaied the impostor with our first parents , possessing the serpent ( as his impe ) to their delusion ( Gen. iii . ) ; and it is whispered that our grandame Eve was a ...
... says , p . 10 : " Some say the devill was the first witch when he plaied the impostor with our first parents , possessing the serpent ( as his impe ) to their delusion ( Gen. iii . ) ; and it is whispered that our grandame Eve was a ...
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... says , " at Dudley , Hodges , at Sedgley , two miles off , was long and commonly accounted such a one , and when I lived at Kederminster , one of my neighbours affirmed , that , having his yarn stolen , he went to Hodges ( ten miles off ) ...
... says , " at Dudley , Hodges , at Sedgley , two miles off , was long and commonly accounted such a one , and when I lived at Kederminster , one of my neighbours affirmed , that , having his yarn stolen , he went to Hodges ( ten miles off ) ...
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... says , " In the North " ( of Britain ) there were matron - like witches and ignorant witches . " It was to one of the superior sort that Satan , being pressed to kill James the Sixth , thus excused himself in French , " Il est homme de ...
... says , " In the North " ( of Britain ) there were matron - like witches and ignorant witches . " It was to one of the superior sort that Satan , being pressed to kill James the Sixth , thus excused himself in French , " Il est homme de ...
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... says : " Her spells were chiefly used for purposes of self - extrication in situations of danger ; and I have conversed with a rustic whose father had seen the old lady convert herself more than once into the form of a hare , or cat ...
... says : " Her spells were chiefly used for purposes of self - extrication in situations of danger ; and I have conversed with a rustic whose father had seen the old lady convert herself more than once into the form of a hare , or cat ...
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... says : " The boy drew towards Jane Brooks , the woman who had bewitched him , who was behind her two sisters , and put his hand upon her , which his father perceiv- ing , immediately scratched her face and drew blood from her . The ...
... says : " The boy drew towards Jane Brooks , the woman who had bewitched him , who was behind her two sisters , and put his hand upon her , which his father perceiv- ing , immediately scratched her face and drew blood from her . The ...
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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 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.
Page 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...
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 of bright gold.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.