 | William Winwood Reade - 1861 - 276 Seiten
...until it is quite black. They put all the bits into a bonnet and every one, o blind-folded, draws. He who holds the bonnet is entitled to the last bit. Whoever draws the black morsel is the devoted person who is to be sacrificed to Baal, and is compelled to leap three times... | |
 | Walter Keating Kelly - 1863 - 332 Seiten
...the bits of the cake into a bonnet, and every one, blindfold, draws out a portion. The bonnet-holder is entitled to the last bit. Whoever draws the black...mean to implore in rendering the year productive. The devoted person is compelled to leap three times over the flames." Here, says Grimm, there is no... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1864 - 670 Seiten
...the bits of the cake into a bonnet, and every one, blindfoldl, draws out a portion. The bonnet-holder is entitled to the last bit. Whoever draws the black...mean to implore in rendering the year productive. The devoted person is compelled to leap three times over the flames.' " ' Here,' says Grimm, ' there... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1864 - 672 Seiten
...the bits of the cake into a bonnet, and every one, blindfold, draws out a portion. The bonnet-holder is entitled to the last bit. Whoever draws the black...to be sacrificed to Baal, whose favour they mean to implode in rendering the year productive. The devoted person is compelled to leap three times over... | |
 | Jonathan Forbes Leslie - 1866 - 364 Seiten
...perfectly black. They put all the bits of cake into a bonnet. Every one, blindfold, draws out a portion. He who holds the bonnet is entitled to the last bit....sustenance of man and beast. There is little doubt of human sacrifices having been once offered in this country as well as in the East, although they now... | |
 | 1868 - 872 Seiten
...the bits of the cake into a bnnnet, and every one, blindfold, draws out a portion. The bonnet-holder is entitled to the last bit. Whoever draws the black...mean to implore in rendering the year productive. The devoted person is compelled to leap three times over the flames.' The leaping three times through... | |
 | 1868 - 858 Seiten
...the bits of the cake into a bonnet, and every one, blindfold, draws out a portion. The bonnet-holder h Z ڋ p> ͣa'F G B=cx 8 N ;} 4 ?H C c &G ŎzI? c>tS / / }ټ » to be sacrificed to Baal, whose favour they mean to implore in rendering the year productive. The... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1906 - 692 Seiten
...perfectly black. Tht-y put all the bits of the cake into a bonnet. Evenone, blindfold, draws out a portion. He who holds the bonnet is entitled to the last bit. Whoever draw-, the black bit is the devoted person, who is to be sacrificed to Baal, whose favour they mean... | |
 | Ephraim Chambers - 1870 - 848 Seiten
...the bits of the cake into a bonnet, and every one, blindfold, draws out a portion. The bonnet-holder is entitled to the last bit. Whoever draws the black bit is the devoted person, who is to he sacrificed to Baal, whose favour they mean to implore in rendering the year prodnctice. The devoted... | |
 | Adolf Bastian - 1871 - 810 Seiten
...the devoted person (in the Highlands of Perthshire), who is to be sacrificed •." f!nl (or lie]), whose favour they mean to implore, in rendering the...year productive of the sustenance of man and beast (compelling him tu leap three times through the flames (1794). So opferten die Äsen dem bejammerten... | |
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Whoever draws the black bit is the devoted person who is to be sacrificed to Baal, whose favour they mean to implore in rendering the year productive of the sustenance of man and beast. 
