Cumberland & Westmorland, Ancient and Modern: The People, Dialect, Superstitions and CustomsWhittaker and Company, 1857 - 171 sider |
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Side 126
... spirits , the Devs . The world , or universe , destined to last four periods of three thousand years each , then became ... spirit of the good creation , is removed from the earth . This belief in the Devs and the mischiefs they occasion ...
... spirits , the Devs . The world , or universe , destined to last four periods of three thousand years each , then became ... spirit of the good creation , is removed from the earth . This belief in the Devs and the mischiefs they occasion ...
Side 133
... spirits , who held a middle place between the benevolent powers of the universe and the bad , and at one time inclined to good acts , at another to evil . But of all the intermediate creations of man's poiesis , none became so widely ...
... spirits , who held a middle place between the benevolent powers of the universe and the bad , and at one time inclined to good acts , at another to evil . But of all the intermediate creations of man's poiesis , none became so widely ...
Side 134
... spirits of the earth , which we now know as fairies , as well as those of the air and the sea , still hope for ... spirit , " is com- posed of man and hill . THE LUCK OF EDENHALL . 135 lord of the castle 134 SUPERSTITIONS AND CUSTOMS .
... spirits of the earth , which we now know as fairies , as well as those of the air and the sea , still hope for ... spirit , " is com- posed of man and hill . THE LUCK OF EDENHALL . 135 lord of the castle 134 SUPERSTITIONS AND CUSTOMS .
Side 140
... spirit - his hour is come ; and he who unwarily approaches her on the shore , is snatched to a watery grave . This superstition , as here described , is , with few discrepancies , generally among the Gothic peoples ; and from a ...
... spirit - his hour is come ; and he who unwarily approaches her on the shore , is snatched to a watery grave . This superstition , as here described , is , with few discrepancies , generally among the Gothic peoples ; and from a ...
Side 141
... spirits by giving them Christian names . And as the Midsummer bone - fires were transferred to St. John , so did all the saints in the calendar receive the wells amongst them . In the course of a few genera- tions , the Celtic adoption ...
... spirits by giving them Christian names . And as the Midsummer bone - fires were transferred to St. John , so did all the saints in the calendar receive the wells amongst them . In the course of a few genera- tions , the Celtic adoption ...
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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 Cultram 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 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 superstition supposed Tatár town traces tradition tribes Ullswater village vowel Wales Welsh Westmorland whilst witch words Worsaae