The Testimony of TraditionK. Paul. Trench, Trübner, 1890 - 205 páginas |
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Página 111 - ... indifferent, as it is with us in the twilight ; and being asked how he got more powder, he said, when he wanted, he went to that hill, and knocked three times, and said every time, I am coming, I am coming...
Página 16 - But there is an instance still more apposite than this: Ranulph Higden tells us in the Polychronicon, p. 195, that the witches in the Isle of Man, anciently sold winds to mariners, and delivered them in knots tied upon a thread, exactly as the Laplanders did. " In ilia insula vigent sortilegia, superstitiones, atque praestigia, nam mulieres ibidem navigaturis ventum vendunt, quasi sub tribus fili nodis inclusum, ita ut sicut plus de vento habere voluerint plures nodos evolvant.
Página 63 - As, indeed, it rises very little above the surface, and as the roof, when entire, is generally covered with sods, and clothed with moss or grass, it partakes so much of the appearance of the rest of the ground, that it can scarcely be distinguished from it. I was much struck by its admirable adaptation to the nature of the climate and the circumstances of the inhabitants. The uncivilized Esquimaux! using no...
Página 16 - ... dolphin's tail. The female monster is called mar-gyga (sea-giantess), and is averred certainly to drag a fish's train. She appears generally in the act of devouring fish which she has caught. According to the apparent voracity of her appetite, the sailors pretend to guess what chance they had of saving their lives in the tempests which always followed her appearance (" Speculum Regale,
Página 81 - ... wealth. Neither was there in concealment under ground in Erinn, nor in the various solitudes belonging to Fians or to fairies, any thing that was not discovered by these foreign, wonderful Denmarkians...
Página 39 - In the Lapland tent Brave days we spent. Under the grey birch tree; In bed or on bank We knew no rank, And a merry crew were we. "Good ale went round As we sat on the ground, Under the grey birch tree; And up with the smoke Flew laugh and joke, And a merry crew were we.
Página 6 - These Finnmen seem to be some of these people that dwell about the Fretum Davis, a full account of whom may be seen in the natural and moral History of the Antilles, Chap. 18. One of their boats sent from Orkney to Edinburgh is to be seen in the Physicians' hall with the Oar and Dart he makes use of for killing Fish.
Página 81 - How the there a fortress, or a fastness, or a mound, or a church, or £? a sacred place, or a sanctuary...
Página 167 - ferocious savagery" of the appearance of the men is produced by a profusion of thick, soft, black hair, divided in the middle and falling in heavy masses nearly to the shoulders.
Página 66 - Long ago there were people in this country called the Pechs ; short wee men they were, wi' red hair, and long arms, and feet sae braid, that when it rained they could turn them up owre their heads, and then they served for umbrellas. The Pechs were great builders ; they built a' the auld castles in the kintry ; and do ye ken the way they built them ? — I'll tell ye. They stood all in a row from the quarry to the place where they were building, and ilk ane handed forward the stanes to his neebor,...