Cumberland & Westmorland, Ancient and Modern: The People, Dialect, Superstitions and CustomsWhittaker and Company, 1857 - 171 sider |
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Side 21
... merged into that of the two Celtic divisions . Hiberno - Celtic and Cambro - Celtic names for the same object are found in Cumberland ; and wherever the national spirit remained unbroken by subsequent invasions , this antagonism may be.
... merged into that of the two Celtic divisions . Hiberno - Celtic and Cambro - Celtic names for the same object are found in Cumberland ; and wherever the national spirit remained unbroken by subsequent invasions , this antagonism may be.
Side 85
... spirit ) , spirited , fated , destined . It has its origin in the belief of a spirit appearing before a person's death , as that of the fetch , banshee , etc. ROTTEN MAD ( E. ranting mad ) , very mad . " Great rot , " great rant ...
... spirit ) , spirited , fated , destined . It has its origin in the belief of a spirit appearing before a person's death , as that of the fetch , banshee , etc. ROTTEN MAD ( E. ranting mad ) , very mad . " Great rot , " great rant ...
Side 111
... spirit of heaven incarnate , thus , it was said , to bring him nearer to his proper sphere . But on the sacrifices we have no satisfactory information . It is generally assumed , from the Roman accounts , that they were human ; but ...
... spirit of heaven incarnate , thus , it was said , to bring him nearer to his proper sphere . But on the sacrifices we have no satisfactory information . It is generally assumed , from the Roman accounts , that they were human ; but ...
Side 115
... spirits by their offensive smell . Stow thinks that a great fire purges the " infec- tion of the air ; " but another author declares that " dragons hate nothyng more than the stenche of brennynge bones . " At Burford in Oxfordshire , it ...
... spirits by their offensive smell . Stow thinks that a great fire purges the " infec- tion of the air ; " but another author declares that " dragons hate nothyng more than the stenche of brennynge bones . " At Burford in Oxfordshire , it ...
Side 118
... spirits live upon the earth , — at first in peace and happiness ; then commences the increasing might of the bad , -the giant race , the struggle of the opposing powers , and the consummation of this period by the flood . The present ...
... spirits live upon the earth , — at first in peace and happiness ; then commences the increasing might of the bad , -the giant race , the struggle of the opposing powers , and the consummation of this period by the flood . The present ...
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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