Credulities Past and Present: Including the Sea and Seamen, Miners, Amulets and Talismans, Rings, Word and Letter Divination, ...Chatto & Windus, 1898 - 560 Seiten |
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A. B. GROSART afterwards alludes amulets ancient animals appears beast believed bell bird blessed Bluecap body called carried charm church cloth extra cloth limp cock colour considered crow Crown 8vo cuckoo curious custom death Demy 8vo divination Duke Edited eggs evil father favour Fcap fire fish fishermen flew fortune Friday Frontispiece gold hand hath head heard heaven holy ill-luck illustrated boards killed King Koshchei Lady land legend letters Lord Louis Philippe Joseph Love luck lucky magpie mariners marriage master mentions miners nest never night Novels observes omen pentacle person Post 8vo prayers priest prince Queen raven Reginald Scot relates remarks ring Romans round sailors saint says Scotland seen seven ship sneeze spirit stone storm story strange superstition supposed talisman tells thee thou tion told took unlucky vessel Vols voyage wind woman words
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Seite 63 - Sometimes, a-dropping from the sky, I heard the skylark sing; Sometimes all little birds that are,— How they seemed to fill the sea and air With their sweet jargoning! And now 'twas like all instruments, Now like a lonely flute; And now it is an angel's song, That makes the heavens be mute.
Seite 356 - 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.
Seite 77 - 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.
Seite 238 - 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.
Seite 78 - On the deck the Rover takes his stand, So dark it is they see no land. Quoth Sir Ralph, " It will be lighter soon, For there is the dawn of the rising moon.
Seite 5 - 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.
Seite 203 - My heart is disquieted within me, and the fear of death is fallen upon me. 5 Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and an horrible dread hath overwhelmed me. 6 And I said, O that I had wings like a dove! for then would I flee away, and be at rest.
Seite 63 - It ceased; yet still the sails made on A pleasant noise till noon, A noise like of a hidden brook, In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.
Seite 1 - They that go down to the sea in ships : and occupy their business in great waters ; These men see the works of the LORD : and His wonders in the deep.
Seite 5 - Outflying the blast and the driving rain, The petrel telleth her tale — in vain...