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

the remedy proved abortive; and if the tree were cut down, the patient relapsed or died. Borlase speaks of a s ...

his belief in the value of his new prerogative; simply by the pressure of the seer’s right foot on the novi ...

On the morning of the battle of Bothwell Bridge, that sore defeat to the Covenanters—so vigoro ...

Ere it is risen, sometimes paints its image In the atmosphere, so often do the spirits Of great events stride on ...

predictions, may be illustrated by two examples from antiquity. On the day that Cæsar and Pompey contended ...

passed the water called the Scottish Sea, towards S. John’s town [Perth,] about four miles from the co ...

liquid arch formed by the “sheeted column’s silvery perpendicular” in waterfall or cataract: there he remain ...

originated the custom that a captive slave, distinguished by the name, the honours, and the ornamen ...

At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds.”[73] It is not easy to reconcile the conflicting details of t ...

Fairies generally dwelt in subterraneous abodes; in the interiors of grassy hillocks, whence issued dulc ...

number of little creatures coming from the sea” in response to spell and charm. Nor must we forget the p ...

INDEX. Aborigines, the, of North America, 254. African Superstitions, 171. Ahetas, the, 153. Ancestors, Worship ...

Caste, Brahman, 14. Cat, adventures of a, 218. Ceremonies, Hindu, 6 ; Eskimo, 275. Chandu, Palace of, 163. Char ...

Dorians, the, 147. Dyaks, the, 145. Egg-trick, the, 169. Equatorial Savage, the, 172. Eskimos, the, ...

Hilarion, S., 280. Hindu Mythology, the, 99. Hindus, the, 203. Hindu Temples, Ceremonies of the, 6. Hio ...

Maories, the, 241. Medicine-bag, the Indian, 265. Medicine-man, the Indian, 174 ; the Eskimo, 274. Meng-tze, the ...

Parsees, the, 43. Peace-pipe, the Indian, 270. Polo, Marco, 161. Polynesian Sacrifices, 228. Polynesian Superstit ...

Rudra, Origin of, 103. Samoans, the, 219. Samojedes, 155. San-tsing, the Chinese deity, 131. Scottish Supersti ...

Talmud, the, 68. Taossi, the, 132. Taouism, 129. Tehu-Chor, the, 3. Thibetan Prayer or Litany, the, 4. ...

J. MASTERS AND CO., PRINTERS, ALBION BUILDINGS, BARTHOLOMEW CLOSE. Footnotes: [1] Miss Gordon Cumming, “From the ...