Highland Superstitions: Connected with the Druids, Fairies, Witchcraft, Second-sight, Hallowe'en, Sacred Wells and Lochs, with Several Curious Instances of Highland Customs and BeliefsE. Mackay, 1901 - 59 Seiten |
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Seite 53 - Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' Hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
Seite 3 - O no, O no, Thomas," she said, That name does not belang to me ; I am but the queen of fair Elfland, That am hither come to visit thee.
Seite 12 - by reason the King is the greatest enemy he hath in the world'; all which their [c]onfessions and depositions are still extant upon record...
Seite 11 - ... that upon the night of All-hallawn-even last she was accompanied as well with the persons aforesaid, as also with a great many other witches, to the number of two hundred, and that...
Seite 17 - ... that before represented to his imagination. This gentleman was not a professed seer. This was his first and his last vision ; and, as he told me, it was sufficient.
Seite 16 - General Stewart of Garth, in his sketches of the Highlanders, relates a very remarkable instance of second sight which happened in his own family. His words are these: — "Late on an autumnal evening in the year 1773, the son of a neighbouring gentleman came to my father's house. He and my mother were from home, but several friends were in the house. The young gentleman spoke little, and seemed absorbed in deep thought. Soon after he arrived, he inquired for a boy of the family, then about three...
Seite 50 - ... his friend, and sat down on a bank to wait his coming ; but he waited long — lonely and dejected ; and then remembering that he for whom he waited was dead, he burst into tears. At this moment a large field-bee came humming from the west, and began to fly round his head. He raised his hand to brush it away ; it widened its circle, and then came humming into his ear as before. He raised his hand a second time, but the bee...
Seite 11 - ... with flagons of wine, making merry and drinking by the way in the same riddles or sieves, to the kirk of North Berwick in Lothian ; and that after they had landed...
Seite 37 - Oh ! Alva woods are bonnie, Tillicoultry hills are fair ; But when I think o' the bonnie braes o' Menstrie It makes my heart aye sair.