 | Sir John Sinclair - 1796 - 682 pagine
...The dregs of fuperilition are.ftill to be found. The lefs informed fufpeft fomething like witcheraft about poor old women ; and are afraid of their evil...caufe. If a perfon, when called to fee one, does not f.iy, " 1 wim her luck," there would be a fufpicion he had fome b.id defign. It is but juft to fay,... | |
 | John Brand - 1842 - 306 pagine
...Stirling, we read : " The dregs of superstition are still to be found. The less informed suspect something like Witchcraft about poor old women, and are afraid of their evil eye among the cattle. If a cow is snddenly taken ill, it is ascribed to some extraordinary cause. If a person when called to see one... | |
 | John Brand - 1842 - 312 pagine
...dregs of superstition are still to he found. The less informed suspect something like Witchcraft ahout poor old women, and are afraid of their evil eye among the cattle. If a cow is suddenly taken ill, it is ascrihed to some extraordinary cause. If a person when called to see one... | |
 | John Brand, Henry Ellis - 1849 - 520 pagine
...Stirling, we read : "The dregs of superstition are still to be found. The less informed suspect something like witchcraft about poor old women, and are afraid of their evil eye among the cattle. If a cow is suddenly taken ill, it is ascribed to some extraordinary cause. If a person when called to see one... | |
 | John Brand, Sir Henry Ellis, William Carew Hazlitt, Henry Ellis - 1905 - 360 pagine
...writer says: "The dregs of superstition are still to be found. The less informed suspect something like witchcraft about poor old women, and are afraid of their evil eye among the cattle. If a cow is suddenly taken ill, it is ascribed to some extraordinary cause. If a person when called to see one... | |
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The dregs of superstition are still to be found. The less informed suspect something like witchcraft about poor old women, and are afraid of their evil eye among the cattle. If a cow is suddenly taken ill, it is ascribed to some extraordinary cause. If... 