Cumberland & Westmorland, Ancient and Modern: The People, Dialect, Superstitions and CustomsWhittaker and Company, 1857 - 171 sider |
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Side 137
... believed , " says a writer on the superstitions of the Scottish highlands , " that the Shi'ichs ( fairies ) are present on all occasions of public entertainment , as at funerals and weddings , and even at fairs ; and that they are there ...
... believed , " says a writer on the superstitions of the Scottish highlands , " that the Shi'ichs ( fairies ) are present on all occasions of public entertainment , as at funerals and weddings , and even at fairs ; and that they are there ...
Side 148
... believed , for a considerable time personally infested the earth ; then followed the magicians , to whom , on certain conditions , evil powers were delegated ; lastly came the witches , whose astounding confessions in connexion with the ...
... believed , for a considerable time personally infested the earth ; then followed the magicians , to whom , on certain conditions , evil powers were delegated ; lastly came the witches , whose astounding confessions in connexion with the ...
Side 151
... believed there was great danger in opening this book . Astrology , on which Dr. Fairer seems to have had some claim , long flourished in these counties . Hutchinson gives us some interesting details concerning a student of this science ...
... believed there was great danger in opening this book . Astrology , on which Dr. Fairer seems to have had some claim , long flourished in these counties . Hutchinson gives us some interesting details concerning a student of this science ...
Side 153
... believed to be potent in procuring another sweetheart , or was merely intended as a consolation , a sort of tonic , -does not appear . - Persons possessed of the " evil eye " are still remembered and spoken of , but I cannot hear of any ...
... believed to be potent in procuring another sweetheart , or was merely intended as a consolation , a sort of tonic , -does not appear . - Persons possessed of the " evil eye " are still remembered and spoken of , but I cannot hear of any ...
Side 161
... believed to have made a lasting impression on the old man , who still lives , and was until very lately a shepherd on the fells . There can be no moral doubt that he both saw , and spoke with , the boggle ; but what share his ...
... believed to have made a lasting impression on the old man , who still lives , and was until very lately a shepherd on the fells . There can be no moral doubt that he both saw , and spoke with , the boggle ; but what share his ...
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Ambleside amongst ancient Angles appears Baal belong Beltain Blencogo boggle bone-fires Britain Bronze age burial-place cairn called Cambro-Celts Castle Celtiberians Celtic Celts century CHAPTER Christian colonised connexion Cornwall Cumberland Cumberland and Westmorland Cumbrian dialect Cumrew Cumwhitton Danes Danish Denmark district doubt Eamont Edenhall England English euphonic Europe evidence existence fairies fell fire fireworship former German giants Gothic graves 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 names of places neighbourhood night Norse observed once origin orthography peculiar Penrith period person pond present probably pronunciation race remains remarkable river Roman Saxon says Scandinavian Silures Stone age story SUPERSTITIONS AND CUSTOMS supposed Tatár town traces tradition tribes Ullswater village vowel Wales Welsh Westmorland whilst witch words Worsaae