| John Jamieson - 1879 - 692 pagine
...perfectly black. They put all the bits of cake into a bonnet. Every one, blindfold, draws out a portion. He, who holds the bonnet, is entitled to the last...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... | |
| James Napier - 1879 - 210 pagine
...portion—he who holds the bonnet is entitled to the last. Who draws the black bit is the devoted person to be sacrificed to Baal, whose favour they mean to implore in rendering the year productive of substance for man and beast. There is little doubt of these human sacrifices being once offered in... | |
| James Napier - 1879 - 208 pagine
...— he who holds the bonnet is entitled to the last. Who draws the black bit is the devoted person to be sacrificed to Baal, whose favour they mean to implore in rendering the year productive of substance for man and beast. There is little doubt of these human sacrifices being once offered in... | |
| Jacob Ludwig C. [single works] Grimm - 1883 - 502 pagine
...the bits of the cake into a bonnet, and every one, blindfold, draws out a portion. The bonnet-holder is entitled to the last bit. Whoever draws the black...mean to implore in rendering the year productive. The devoted person is compelled to leap three times over the flames.' Here the reference to the worship... | |
| Jacob Grimm - 1883 - 488 pagine
...the bits of the cake into a bonnet, and every one, blindfold, draws out a portion. The bonnet-holder is entitled to the last bit. Whoever draws the black bit is the devoted person who is to lie sacrificed to Baal, whose favour they mean to implore in rendering the year productive. The devoted... | |
| Alexander Mackenzie - 1884 - 776 pagine
...black. They put all the bits of the cake into a bonnet. Every one, blindfold, draws out a portion. He who holds the bonnet is entitled to the last bit....who is to be sacrificed to Baal, whose favour they implore in rendering the year productive of the sustenance of man and beast. There is little doubt... | |
| Henry William J. Senior - 1885 - 208 pagine
...perfectly black. They put all the bits of cake into a bonnet. Every one, blindfolded, draws out a portion. He who holds the bonnet is entitled to the last bit....is little doubt of these inhuman sacrifices having once been offered in this country as well as in the east, although they now pass from the act of sacrificing,... | |
| Alexander Macbain - 1885 - 126 pagine
...black. They put all the bits of the cake into a bonnet. Every one, blindfold, draws out a portion. He who holds the bonnet is entitled to the last bit....who is to be sacrificed to Baal, whose favour they implore in rendering the year productive of the sustenance of man. and beast. There is little doubt... | |
| Jacob Grimm - 1883 - 488 pagine
...the bits of the cake into a bonnet, and every one, blindfold, draws out a portion. The bonnet-holder is entitled to the last bit. Whoever draws the black...mean to implore in rendering the year productive. The devoted person is compelled to leap three times over the flames.' Here the reference to the worship... | |
| 1890 - 786 pagine
...black. They put all the bits of the 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 tu be sacrificed to Baal, whose favour they mean to implore, in rendering the year productive of the... | |
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