Curiosities of Superstition, and Sketches - W. H. Davenport Adams

and made a huge pipe by turning it in his hand, which he smoked over them, to the north, the south, t ...

Breathed upon the neighbouring forest, Made its great boughs chafe together, Till in flame they burst ...

floating on the lake. He shot the first arrow with great precision, and came very near his mark. The ...

Filling all the land with plenty.” ...

CHAPTER XVI. AMONG THE ESKIMOS. THE success which has attended the labours of the Lutheran and Moravian Missionar ...

All light having been carefully excluded from the scene of operations, the sorcerer began by veh ...

continued for at least half an hour. Captain Lyon then observed a couple of bunches, each consistin ...

the apology for any act revolting to moral sense. He was first harpooned, then disembowelled; a flap letdown fro ...

CHAPTER XVII. A MEDIÆVAL SUPERSTITION: THE FLAGELLANTS. AMONG the extraordinary delusions of the human ...

But error is slow to die; and long after the introduction of Christianity men continued to think that ...

“From his sixteenth to his twentieth year,” says Kingsley, “he was sheltered from the heat and rain in a ...

meet sacrifice, he offered up his poor, wounded, tortured, emaciated body. “I will not cease to grasp th ...

theirs. And not only in the daytime, but likewise during the nights, hundreds, thousands, and ten thousands of th ...

marched in procession, carrying banners and crosses. The folly soon crossed the Alps into Germany, and foun ...

the repentance of the people for the sins they had committed, and offered prayers and supplications for the averting ...

the fanaticism; the wits of Paris levelled their ridicule at it; and finally, in 1601, the Parliament of Pa ...

CHAPTER XVIII. SCOTTISH SUPERSTITIONS: HALLOWEEN. THE imaginative element in the character of the Celti ...

people meet, beneath the shade of the graceful birches, upon mead or hill. To the belief in a tribe ...

Oft have they seen fate give the fatal blow! The sea, in Skye, shrieked as the blood did flow, When ...

neighbour’s house with this intent. There was only a child of eight years old at home, but she ...