Cumberland & Westmorland, Ancient and Modern: The People, Dialect, Superstitions and CustomsWhittaker and Company, 1857 - 171 sider |
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Side 57
... night into a lane or field , he slangs him ( an active derivative from the verb to slink , slinge ) ; the three sticks to which he hangs his kettle over the fire , are the chitty - box ( kettle- balks ) ; and the master of the house ...
... night into a lane or field , he slangs him ( an active derivative from the verb to slink , slinge ) ; the three sticks to which he hangs his kettle over the fire , are the chitty - box ( kettle- balks ) ; and the master of the house ...
Side 82
... night , " or public - house annual benefit ball . It is not in general use ; but belongs to the Borders , and amongst other places , to the neighbourhood of Hesket . WEALD ( G. wald , a forest , from obs . val , a hill , cf. G. wallen ...
... night , " or public - house annual benefit ball . It is not in general use ; but belongs to the Borders , and amongst other places , to the neighbourhood of Hesket . WEALD ( G. wald , a forest , from obs . val , a hill , cf. G. wallen ...
Side 114
... night of the Fylde of Lancashire is a part of the same observance . The Midsummer rejoicings are most generally known nnder the name of bone - fires , being so called from the custom of burning bones on that night . These are the bane ...
... night of the Fylde of Lancashire is a part of the same observance . The Midsummer rejoicings are most generally known nnder the name of bone - fires , being so called from the custom of burning bones on that night . These are the bane ...
Side 115
... night , go round the neighbourhood to collect donations for the purchase of faggots , the ringleader , or Arch - druid , carrying in his hand the skull of a horse or other animal as a symbol of his priestly functions . With the larger ...
... night , go round the neighbourhood to collect donations for the purchase of faggots , the ringleader , or Arch - druid , carrying in his hand the skull of a horse or other animal as a symbol of his priestly functions . With the larger ...
Side 132
... night . You will be there also , or I will throw myself from the precipice , and will die a temporal and an eternal death . " Should I see him , thought shewith beating heart - should I see him outside the convent walls ? Oh ! I must ...
... night . You will be there also , or I will throw myself from the precipice , and will die a temporal and an eternal death . " Should I see him , thought shewith beating heart - should I see him outside the convent walls ? Oh ! I must ...
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Ambleside amongst ancient Angles appears Baal belong Beltain Blencogo boggle bone-fires Britain Bronze age burial-place cairn called Cambro-Celts Castle Celtiberians Celtic Celts century CHAPTER Christian colonised connexion Cornwall Cultram Cumberland Cumberland and Westmorland Cumbrian dialect Cumrew Cumwhitton custom Danes Danish Denmark district doubt Eamont Edenhall England English euphonic Europe evidence existence fairies fell fire fireworship former German giants Gothic graves Hiberno-Celtic hill Iberian inhabitants Ireland Irish Irish language island Kendal kind Kirkby Kirkby Stephen Kirkby Thore Lancashire land language late latter Luck of Edenhall means mixed modern monument mountain names of places neighbourhood night Norse observed once origin orthography peculiar Penrith period person pond present probably pronunciation race remains remarkable river Roman Saxon says Scandinavian Silures Stone age story superstition supposed Tatár town traces tradition tribes Ullswater village vowel Wales Welsh Westmorland whilst witch words Worsaae