Folklore, Volume 13Joseph Jacobs, Alfred Trübner Nutt, Arthur Robinson Wright, William Crooke Folklore Society, 1902 Most vols. for 1890- contain list of members of the Folk-lore Society. |
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... Ireland . ELEANOR HULL Whitley Stokes's Notes on the Togail Bruidne Dȧ Derga . ELEANOR HULL ELEANOR HULL · Ivor B. John's The Mabinogion . ELEANOR HULL Alfred Nutt's Cuchulainn , the Irish Achilles . Lady Gregory's Cuchulainn of ...
... Ireland . ELEANOR HULL Whitley Stokes's Notes on the Togail Bruidne Dȧ Derga . ELEANOR HULL ELEANOR HULL · Ivor B. John's The Mabinogion . ELEANOR HULL Alfred Nutt's Cuchulainn , the Irish Achilles . Lady Gregory's Cuchulainn of ...
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... Ireland . Mrs. W. Price . ( 6 ) A number of Astragals , including illustrations of the modern game . Mr. E. Lovett . ( 7 ) Photographs of terra - cotta and marble groups in the British Museum representing girls playing with Astragals ...
... Ireland . Mrs. W. Price . ( 6 ) A number of Astragals , including illustrations of the modern game . Mr. E. Lovett . ( 7 ) Photographs of terra - cotta and marble groups in the British Museum representing girls playing with Astragals ...
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... Ireland . Even when we first meet with Greek society , it had passed out of and beyond that archaic tribal organisation which is revealed to us by the native laws of the Irish Goidels and the Welsh Brythons . Number- less traces of it ...
... Ireland . Even when we first meet with Greek society , it had passed out of and beyond that archaic tribal organisation which is revealed to us by the native laws of the Irish Goidels and the Welsh Brythons . Number- less traces of it ...
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... Ireland the two great cycles of Cuchulainn and Finn . Now in all these three cases the heroic legend stands outside of , and disconnected from , the main stream of tribal genealogical tradition . So much is this the case in Ireland ...
... Ireland the two great cycles of Cuchulainn and Finn . Now in all these three cases the heroic legend stands outside of , and disconnected from , the main stream of tribal genealogical tradition . So much is this the case in Ireland ...
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... Ireland is really more curious ; here the visions of saints and the bright lights were witnessed by the people of Knock both by day and at night , on the outside wall of the parish church ( Catholic ) . Wood- spirits and tree - worship ...
... Ireland is really more curious ; here the visions of saints and the bright lights were witnessed by the people of Knock both by day and at night , on the outside wall of the parish church ( Catholic ) . Wood- spirits and tree - worship ...
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Page 328 - In the temple of Apollo Diradiotes at Argos, a lamb was sacrificed by night once a month ; a woman, who had to observe a rule of chastity, tasted the blood of the lamb, and thus being inspired by the god she prophesied or divined.1 At Aegira in Achaea the priestess of Earth drank the fresh blood of a bull before she descended into the cave to prophesy.
Page 5 - Index to archaeologists is now" recognised. Every effort is made to keep its contents up to date and continuous, but it is obvious that the difficulties are great unless the assistance of the societies is obtained. If for any reason the papers of a society are not indexed in the year to which they properly belong the plan is to include them in the following year ; and whenever the papers of societies are brought into the Index for the first time they are then indexed from the year 1891. By this...
Page 3 - Marett in the Chair. The minutes of the last Annual Meeting were read and confirmed. The...
Page 212 - As collected by John of Tynemouth, John Capgrave, and others, and first printed, with New Lives, by Wynkyn de Worde, 1516.