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 under 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 under 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 Caltram Cambro-Celts Castle Celtiberians Celts century CHAPTER Christian colonised connexion Cornwall 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 ground 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 mythology names of places neighbourhood night Norse observed once origin orthography peculiar Penrith period person pond present probably pronunciation remains remarkable river Roman Saxon says Scandinavian Stone age story superstition supposed Tatár town traces tradition tribes tumulus Ullswater village vowel Wales Welsh Westmorland whilst witch words Worsaae
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Side 16 - in which an urn is often placed. The author is possessed of one, discovered beneath an immense cairn at Roughlee, in Liddesdale. It is of the most barbarous construction; the middle of the substance alone having been subjected to the fire, over which, when hardened, the artist had laid an inner and outer coat of unbaked clay, etched with some very rude ornaments.
Side 31 - The system of Druidism is thought to have been formed in Britain, and from thence carried over into Gaul; and now those who wish to be more accurately versed in it, for the most part go thither
Side 128 - adds: I speke of many hundred yeres ago, But now can no man see none elves mo. In
Side 1 - die ältesten und dauerndsten Denkmäler, erzählt eine längst vergangene Nation gleichsam selbst ihre eigenen Schicksale, und es fragt sich nur, ob ihre Stimme uns noch verständlich bleibt.
Side 73 - In the early part of the (Icelandic) commonwealth, when a man was suspected of theft, a kind of tribunal composed of twelve persons named by him, and twelve by the person whose goods had been stolen, was instituted before the door of his dwelling, and hence called a door-doom; but as this manner of proceeding generally ended in bloodshed, it was abolished.'
Side 132 - the neighbouring villages to assemble at this well early in the afternoon of the second Sunday in May, and there to join in a variety of rural sports. It was the village wake,
Side 152 - a pace-egging, I hope you'll prove kind, I hope you'll prove kind with your eggs and strong beer, And we'll come no more nigh you until the next year.
Side 128 - in the uncultivated wilds of Northumberland, but even there I could only meet with a man who said that he had seen one that had seen fairies.
Side 106 - is the only other remains of fireworship in these counties. It was once an annual observance, and is still occasionally employed in the dales and some other localities (according to the import of the name, cattle-fire)
Side 15 - draw. It is supported by three large rude pillars about eight feet high; but there are also five others which are of no use at present, as not being high enough