Macedonian FolkloreAt the University Press, 1903 - 372 sider |
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Side 17
... children . This may be worth noting by students of cuckoo - customs . It has already been conjectured that the game in question is perhaps related to a custom of hunting the cuckoo . See Animal Superstitions and Totemism , by N. W. ...
... children . This may be worth noting by students of cuckoo - customs . It has already been conjectured that the game in question is perhaps related to a custom of hunting the cuckoo . See Animal Superstitions and Totemism , by N. W. ...
Side 18
... children learn ? " The schoolmaster has sent us that thou mayest give us five eggs , And if thou hast not five eggs , give us the clucking hen , To lay eggs and brood over them and draw her chickens after her . " March is come : he is ...
... children learn ? " The schoolmaster has sent us that thou mayest give us five eggs , And if thou hast not five eggs , give us the clucking hen , To lay eggs and brood over them and draw her chickens after her . " March is come : he is ...
Side 19
... children's wrists a skein consisting of red and white yarn , twisted together and called after the month ( o μápτns ... child which wore it . A parallel is offered by the practice of some of the natives of New South Wales who placed the ...
... children's wrists a skein consisting of red and white yarn , twisted together and called after the month ( o μápτns ... child which wore it . A parallel is offered by the practice of some of the natives of New South Wales who placed the ...
Side 20
... child for a while care- fully and then is thrown on the roof , accompanied with this invocation of the crow : Νά , κουρούνα μ ' , κόκκαλο Καὶ δός μου σιδερένιο , Νὰ ῥοκανίζω τὰ κουκκιά , Νὰ τρώγω παξιμάδι . " O dear crow , here is a ...
... child for a while care- fully and then is thrown on the roof , accompanied with this invocation of the crow : Νά , κουρούνα μ ' , κόκκαλο Καὶ δός μου σιδερένιο , Νὰ ῥοκανίζω τὰ κουκκιά , Νὰ τρώγω παξιμάδι . " O dear crow , here is a ...
Side 21
... child is thrown to it : a skein to the swallow , a tooth to the crow . The motive in both seems to be to draw upon the child a blessing through the sympathetic agency of things which belonged to it . The first three days of March are ...
... child is thrown to it : a skein to the swallow , a tooth to the crow . The motive in both seems to be to draw upon the child a blessing through the sympathetic agency of things which belonged to it . The first three days of March are ...
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Side 52 - As, supperless to bed they must retire, And couch supine their beauties, lily white; Nor look behind, nor sideways, but require Of Heaven with upward eyes for all that they desire.
Side 57 - And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom : also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
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Side 190 - A man had better ne'er been born, Than have his nails on a Sunday shorn. Cut them on Monday, cut them for health ; Cut them on Tuesday, cut them for wealth ; Cut them on Wednesday, cut them for news ; Cut them on Thursday for a pair of new shoes ; Cut them on Friday, cut them for sorrow ; Cut them on Saturday, see your sweetheart tomorrow.
Side 60 - Begins to paint the bloomy plain, We hear thy sweet prophetic strain, Thy sweet prophetic strain we hear, And bless the notes, and thee revere ! The muses love thy shrilly tone, Apollo calls thee all his own, 'Twas he who gave that voice to thee, 'Tis he who tunes thy minstrelsy.
Side 96 - My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.
Side 235 - When Jesus saw that the people came running together, he rebuked the foul spirit, saying unto him, Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him.
Side 53 - On St. Mark's Eve, at twelve o'clock, The fair maid will watch her smock, To find her husband in the dark, By praying unto good St. Mark."] Pennant says, that in North Wales no farmer dare hold his team on St.