 | 1809 - 688 páginas
...the owners, through the following year : misfortune is presaged by those that burn black and crackle. On the following morning the stones are searched for in the fire ; if any be missing, let their owners make up their minds to encounter mischief — perhaps calamity.... | |
 | William Hone - 1868 - 846 páginas
...betoken prosperity tu the owners through the following year but those that burn black and crackl« denote misfortune. On the following morning the stones are searched for in the fire, and if any be missing they betide ill to those that threw them in." At St. Kilda, on Hallow E'en night, they baked... | |
 | William Hone - 1826 - 892 páginas
...betoken prosperity to the owners through the following year, but those that burn black and crackle denote misfortune. On the following morning the stones are searched for in the fire, and if any be missing they betide ill to those that threw them in." At St. Hilda, on Hallow E'en night, they baked... | |
 | Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) - 1828 - 452 páginas
...propitious power, to wash away The stains of this dishonouable day. jEneid. lib. 11, Dryden's Version. The Autumnal fire is still kindled, in North Wales,...are so many vestiges of the Druidical superstitions. Apollo was the god of medicine ; the Druids also cultivated this science, and the most implicit confidence... | |
 | William Preston - 1829 - 488 páginas
...prosperity to the owners through the following year, but those that burn black, and crackle, denote misfortune. On the following morning, the stones are searched for in the fire, and if any be missing they betide ill to those who threw them in. Another remnant ot Druidical superstition, with... | |
 | William Hone - 1837 - 954 páginas
...betoken prosperity ta the owners through the following year but those that burn black and crackle denote misfortune. On the following morning the stones are searched for in the fire, and if any be missing they betide ill to those that threw them in." At St. Kilda, on Hallow E'en night, they baked... | |
 | George Oliver - 1837 - 160 páginas
...the black short tailed sow. On the following morning the stones are searched for amongst the ashes, and if any are missing they betide ill to those who threw them in. The ceremonies of gathering the misletoe at Christmas ; and the sports of May day were also practised... | |
 | Robert Thomas Hampson - 1841 - 512 páginas
...betoken prosperity to the owners through the following year, but those that burn black and crackle denote misfortune. On the following morning the stones are searched for in the fire, and if any be missing, they betide ill to those that threw them in." These ceremonies bear no little resemblance... | |
 | Robert Thomas Hampson - 1841 - 546 páginas
...to the owners through the following year, but those that burn black and crackle denote nusfortune. On the following morning the stones are searched for in the fire, and if any be missing, they betide ill to those that threw them in." These ceremonies bear no little resemblance... | |
 | John Brand - 1849 - 574 páginas
...betoken prosperity to the owners through the following year, but those that burn black and crackle denote misfortune. On the following morning the stones are searched for in the fire, and if any be missing, they betide ill to those who threw them in." Owen has prefaced these curious particulars... | |
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... an apple suspended by a string with the mouth alone, and the same by an apple in a tub of water : each throwing a nut into the fire ; and those that burn bright, betoken prosperity to the owners through the following year, but those that burn black... 
