Macedonian FolkloreAt the University Press, 1903 - 372 sider |
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... origin of this belief is enveloped in obscurity , the usual attribute of folk - beliefs . It may possibly have arisen in an effort on the part of the Church to prevent the people from continuing the pagan rites customary on this day ...
... origin of this belief is enveloped in obscurity , the usual attribute of folk - beliefs . It may possibly have arisen in an effort on the part of the Church to prevent the people from continuing the pagan rites customary on this day ...
Side 28
... origin , used to turn out armed , " hitting the air with their spears and saying that they were expelling the foreign gods . " Hdt . 1. 172 . 4 Tylor , Primitive Culture , vol . 1. p . 73 . In the evening of Cheese - Sunday it is the 28 ...
... origin , used to turn out armed , " hitting the air with their spears and saying that they were expelling the foreign gods . " Hdt . 1. 172 . 4 Tylor , Primitive Culture , vol . 1. p . 73 . In the evening of Cheese - Sunday it is the 28 ...
Side 57
... origin . " The justice of this remark is proved by the antiquity of the custom , which certainly dates from pre - Christian times . We read in the Old Testament that King Manasseh " caused his children to pass through the fire in the ...
... origin . " The justice of this remark is proved by the antiquity of the custom , which certainly dates from pre - Christian times . We read in the Old Testament that King Manasseh " caused his children to pass through the fire in the ...
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... mass . But in either case , it seems to have its 1 Ralston , Songs of the Russian People , p . 201 . 2 Α . Δ . Γουσίου , ' Η κατὰ τὸ Πάγγαιον Χώρα , p . 40 . remote origin in the " healing efficacy " and other Winter Festivities 87.
... mass . But in either case , it seems to have its 1 Ralston , Songs of the Russian People , p . 201 . 2 Α . Δ . Γουσίου , ' Η κατὰ τὸ Πάγγαιον Χώρα , p . 40 . remote origin in the " healing efficacy " and other Winter Festivities 87.
Side 88
George Frederick Abbott. remote origin in the " healing efficacy " and other virtues attributed to the waters at this time of year - an idea , like so many others , adopted by Christianity , but still retaining enough of its primitive ...
George Frederick Abbott. remote origin in the " healing efficacy " and other virtues attributed to the waters at this time of year - an idea , like so many others , adopted by Christianity , but still retaining enough of its primitive ...
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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.
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