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 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