 | 1868 - 872 sider
...portions with charcoal until it is perfectly black. They then put all the bits of the cake into a bnnnet, and every one, blindfold, draws out a portion. The...is the devoted person, who is to be sacrificed to Baal, whose favour they mean to implore in rendering the year productive. The devoted person is compelled... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1906 - 1046 sider
...the bits of the cake into a bonnet. Everyone, blindfold, draws out a portion. He who holds the bonnet is entitled to the last bit. Whoever draws the black...is the devoted person, who is to be sacrificed to Baal, whose favour they mean to implore, in rendering the year productive of the sustenance of man... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1906 - 692 sider
...blindfold, draws out a portion. He who holds the bonnet is entitled to the last bit. Whoever draw-, the black bit is the devoted person, who is to be sacrificed to Baal, whose favour they mean to implore, in rendering the year productive of the sustenance ni man... | |
 | Ephraim Chambers - 1870 - 848 sider
...are persons in the company. They daub one of these portions with charcoal until it is perfectly bUck. They then put all the bits of the cake into a bonnet,...draws the black bit is the devoted person, who is to he sacrificed to Baal, whose favour they mean to implore in rendering the year prodnctice. The devoted... | |
 | 1876 - 852 sider
...beginning of the 19th c., is thus described : ' The young folks of a hamlet meet in the moors on the 1st of May. They cut a table in the green sod, of a round...is the devoted person, who is to be sacrificed to Baal, whose favour they mean to implore in rendering the year productive. The devoted person is compelled... | |
 | Mary Elizabeth Braddon - 1878 - 542 sider
...all the bits of cake into a bonnet. Everyone, blindfold, draws out a portion. He who holds the bonnet is entitled to the last bit ; whoever draws the black...bit is the devoted person who is to be sacrificed to Baal, whose favour they mean to implore in rendering the year productive of the sustenance of man and... | |
 | 1878 - 588 sider
...all the bits of cake into a bonnet. Everyone, blindfold, draws out a portion. He who holds the bonnet is entitled to the last bit ; whoever draws the black...bit is the devoted person who is to be sacrificed to Baal, whose favour they mean to implore in rendering the year productive of the sustenance of man and... | |
 | John Jamieson - 1879 - 692 sider
...the bits of cake into a bonnet. Every one, blindfold, draws out a portion. He, who holds the bonnet, is entitled to the last bit. Whoever draws the black bit, is the devoted person who is to I« sacrificed to Baal, whose favour they mean to implore, in rendering the year productive of the... | |
 | Robert Macgregor - 1881 - 226 sider
...all the bits of cake into a bonnet. Everyone, blindfold, draws out a portion. He who holds the bonnet is entitled to the last bit ; whoever draws the black...bit is the devoted person who is to be sacrificed to Baal, whose favour they mean to implore in rendering the year productive of the sustenance of man and... | |
 | Jacob Ludwig C. [single works] Grimm - 1883 - 502 sider
...is thus described by Armstrong sub v. bealtainn : ' In some parts of the Highlands the young folks of a hamlet meet in the moors on the first of May....bit is the devoted person who is to be sacrificed to Baal, whose favour they mean to implore in rendering the year productive. The devoted person is compelled... | |
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Whoever draws the black bit is the devoted person, who is to be sacrificed to Baal, whose favour they mean to implore in rendering the year productive of the sustenance of man and beast. 
