A Provincial Glossary: With a Collection of Local Proverbs, and Popular SuperstitionsE. Jeffery, 1811 - 304 pagine |
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A Provincial Glossary: With a Collection of Local Proverbs, and Popular ... Francis Grose Visualizzazione completa - 1811 |
A Provincial Glossary: With a Collection of Local Proverbs, and Popular ... Francis Grose Visualizzazione completa - 1811 |
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Pagina 254 - The trial by the stool was another method used for the discovery of witches ; it was thus managed : having taken the suspected witch, she is placed in the middle of a room, upon a stool or table, cross-legged, or in some other uneasy posture; to which if she submits not, she is then bound with cords ; there is she watched, and kept without meat or sleep for the space of twenty-four hours, (for, they say, within that time they shall see her imp come and suck).
Pagina 178 - I am an old man, sir,' quoth he, 'and I may remember the building of Tenterton steeple; and I may remember when there was no steeple at all there. And before that...
Pagina 257 - ... child out of his, her, or their grave, or any other place where the dead body resteth, or the skin, bone, or any...
Pagina 166 - A gammon of bacon you shall receive, And bear it hence with love and good leave ; For this is our custom at Dunmow well known, Though the sport be ours the bacon's your own.
Pagina 275 - Any unmarried woman fasting on Midsummer Eve, and at midnight laying a clean cloth, with bread, cheese, and ale, and sitting down as if going to eat, the street door being left open, the person whom she is afterwards to marry will come into the room and drink to her by bowing ; and after filling the glass will leave it on the table, and, making another bow, retires.
Pagina 291 - Rosberrye Toppinge there is a well dedicated to St. Oswald. The neighbours have an opinion that a shirt or shift taken off a sick person and thrown into that well, will show whether the person will recover or die ; for if it floated it denoted the recovery of the party ; if it sunk, there remained no hope of their life: and to reward the Saint for his intelligence, they tear off a rag of the shirt, and leave it hanging on the briars thereabouts ; where, says the writer," I have seen such numbers...
Pagina 287 - HE passing-bell was anciently rung for two purposes : one, to bespeak the prayers of all good Christians for a soul just departing; the other, to drive away the evil spirits who stood at the bed's foot, and about the house, ready to seize their prey, or at least to molest and terrify the soul in its passage...
Pagina 165 - Since you were married man and wife, By household brawls, or contentious strife; Or otherwise, in bed or at board, Offended each other in deed or word : Or since the parish clerk said Amen...
Pagina 302 - The original materials supplied by himself are creditable to his observation, good sense, and benevolence. Almost every topic of general interest will be found in this comprehensive and judicious Compilation, treated in a clear and familiar manner. As a book of daily reference in the common concerns of life, it will be found to afford important assistance, and its great practical utility will, no doubt, ensure it a ready introduction, and a favourable reception, in every intelligent family.
Pagina 177 - More saw this aged man, he thought it expedient to hear him say his mind in this matter, for, being so old a man, it was likely that he knew most of any man in that presence and company. So Master More called this old aged man unto him, and said, Father...