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Alfred Nutt ancient asked baked Basset belief Bócan bread bride Bridget Boland Bridget Cleary burning Cailleach called ceremony Charm Chre collection cure custom dancing daughter dead death Donald Bán Dunne evidence Evil Eye fairies faqir father festival finger Finnish fire folk-songs folklore Folktales ghostly lights girl given hand heard Helvede Himmerig husband Ilmarinen Indian Irish J. G. Frazer Kalevala Kantele Kanteletar King legend Lemminkäinen living Loitsurunoja Lönnrot magic song maiden marriage married Michael Cleary mother neighbouring night Notes Nutt old woman once Origin person Pitsligo Pohjola populaire prince pushed Roland Rollright Rollright stones round runes Sampo Sampo-Song Scottish folklore seaware Seebohm seen Sekchilli shoes Society stone story superstitions tale throws told Traditions tree tribal system turn Turriff Väinämöinen variants village W. H. D. Rouse wife witch witness
Popular passages
Page 249 - Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head ; Judah is my lawgiver ; 9 Moab is my washpot ; over Edom will I cast out my shoe ; over Philistia will I triumph.
Page 239 - Mine eyes are made the fools o' the other senses, Or else worth all the rest ; I see thee still, And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood, Which was not so before. There's no such thing : It is the bloody business which informs Thus to mine eyes.
Page 249 - God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
Page 44 - Child Rowland to the dark tower came ; His word was still, — Fie, foh, and fum, I smell the blood of a British man.
Page 124 - This wuulon is lent to anyone of the tribe who wishes to vent his spite against anyone belonging to the unfriendly tribe. When used as a charm, the wuulon is rubbed over with emu fat mixed with red clay, and tied to the point of a spear-thrower, which is stuck upright in the ground before the camp-fire. The company sit round watching it, but at such a distance that their shadows cannot fall on it. They keep chanting imprecations on the enemy till the spear-thrower turns round and falls in his direction.
Page 130 - All who were employed in embalming, which they called miri, were, during the process, carefully avoided by every person, as the guilt of the crime for which the deceased had died, was supposed in some degree to attach to such as touched the body. They did not feed themselves, lest the food defiled by the touch of their polluted hands, should cause their own death, — but were fed by others.
Page 156 - ... one of them gave a signal, at which the candle was put out, and immediately all of them went to the fields, where they fell...
Page 143 - Bed : and then the mistress and servants cry three times, " Briid is come ; Briid is welcome ! " This they do just before going to bed, and when they rise in the morning they look among the ashes, expecting to see the impression of Briid's club there ; which, if they do, they reckon it a true presage of' a good crop and prosperous year, and the con trary they take as an ill omen.
Page 125 - Should circumstances arise calculated to excite the resentment of the diseasemaker towards the person who ate the flesh of the animal from which the bone was taken, he immediately sticks the bone in the ground near the fire, firmly believing that it will produce disease in the person for whom it was designed, however distant he may be. Death also may result. All the natives, therefore, are careful to burn the bones of the animals which they eat, so as to prevent their enemies from getting hold of...
Page 143 - The mistress and servants of each family dress a sheaf of oats in women's apparel, put it in a large basket, and lay a wooden club by it, and this they call Briid's Bed ; and the mistress and servants cry three times, ' Briid is come, Briid is welcome !' This they do just before going to bed.