Brand's Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Faiths and Folklore; a Dictionary of National Beliefs, Superstitions and Popular Customs, Past and Current, with Their Classical and Foreign Analogues, Described and Illustrated, Bind 1John Brand, Henry Ellis, William Carew Hazlitt Reeves and Turner, 1905 - 672 sider |
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Side 255 - ghosts excel all others. The terrible indeed is his forte. How awful is that description of the dead time of night, the season of their perambulation ! " 'Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world." I append two other early notices
Side 152 - for the heade, as either Capricorne, or the stoutest horned signe in the Zodiacke." "It is said,—Many a man knows no end of his goods : right : many a man has good horns, and knows no end of them. Well, that is the dowry of his wife ; 'tis none of his own getting. Horns? Even so: — Poor men
Side 289 - blind harpers or such like tauerne minstrels that give a fit of mirth for a groat, and their matters being for the most part stories of old time, as the Tale of Sir Topas, the Reportes of Bevis of Southampton, Guy of Warwicke, Adam Bell, and Clymme of the Clough, and such other old romances, or
Side 74 - Fresh ones are immediately supplied in the place of those that are wounded or tired. To this entertainment there often follows that of whipping a blinded bear, which is performed by five or six men, standing circularly, with whips, which they exercise upon him without any mercy, as he cannot escape from them because of
Side 161 - the insult, quaintly observing to him " When you take occasions to see leeks hereafter, I pray you, mock at them, that is all." Gower too upbraids Pistol for mocking "at an ancient tradition—begun upon an honourable respect, and worn as a memorable trophy of pre-deceased valour.
Side 204 - following passage is cited from one of Bacon's works. It seems some have been so curious as to note that the times when the stroke, or percussion of an envious eye does most hurt, are particularly when the party envied is beheld in glory and triumph.
Side 43 - this to thee, O hooded crow ;' ' this to thee, eagle ! ' When the ceremony is over, they dine on the caudle ; and, after the feast is finished, what is left is hid by two persons deputed for that purpose ; but on the next Sunday they re-assemble, and finish the religues of
Side 74 - chain. He defends himself with all his force and skill, throwing down all who come within his reach, and are not active enough to get out of it, and tearing the whips out of their hands and breaking them. At these spectacles, and every where else, the English are constantly smoking tobacco.
Side 155 - This is the foul fiend Flibbertigibbet : He begins at curfew, and walks to the first cock." The following is an extract from the Churchwardens' and Chamberlain's Accounts of Kingston - upon Thames: "1651. For ringing the curfew bell for one year, £1
Side 278 - by day-break. The strong beer was broached, and the black-jacks went plentifully about with toast, sugar, nutmegg, and good Cheshire cheese. The Hackin (the great sausage) must be boiled by day-break, or else two young men must take the maiden (ie, the cook), by the arms, and run her round the market-place till she is ashamed