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

naturally be considered criminal for one neighbour to give it to another at the seasons when every man was ...

and nuts. Apples are a relic of the old Celtic fairy lore. They are thrown into a tub of water, and you en ...

revolve rapidly, the revellers successively leap up and endeavour to grasp the apple with their teeth—th ...

Again: if a damsel eat an apple in front of a looking-glass, she will shortly see her future husband peeping ...

lighted in many parts of Argyllshire. A remarkable Halloween story is recorded in Dr. Robert Chambers’s val ...

Her husband listened with deep interest to this strange narrative, and then, sighing deeply, said, ...

whom you have never exchanged a word?” “Well, sir,” was the reply, “as I have betrayed myself, it is wel ...

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CHAPTER XIX. SECOND SIGHT: DIVINATION: UNIVERSALITY OF CERTAIN SUPERSTITIONS: FAIRIES IN SCOTLAND. THERE are many ...

removal to Glasgow or Aberdeen, thither he trudged afoot with his little “all” in a knapsack slung from h ...

traditions and customs of the people, though in doing so we digress, perhaps, from the main lines of the pre ...

baptised, she would, on her coming to the years of discretion, most certainly have a strong beard, and the bo ...

person fluttered the image of a white dove. And when the spirit had departed, the doors and windows were ...

the “Calcutta Review” thinks this notion as old as the Greeks of the time of Xenophon, as appears from a w ...

“The notion of a hiccough being an indication that some one is thinking of the person affected, is ...

snake won’t bite queen; queen won’t talk to king; king won’t chide carpenter; carpenter won’t cut m ...

won’t burn stick; stick won’t beat snake; snake won’t bite queen; queen won’t talk to king; king ...

raised or dispelled, evil prevented, secrets discovered, diseases cured, love engendered,—and that all th ...

In the Name of Sweet JESUS, I take thee from the ground.” “Bleeding at the touch,” has been accepted ...

incident a secret crime. The preservation of health and the prolongation of life are necessarily objects of in ...