Scottish Charms and Amulets

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Neill and Company, 1894 - 94 pages
 

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Page 469 - ... like a ring about the head of one of them, which the rest, by continual hissing, blow on till it comes off at the tail, and then it immediately hardens and resembles a glass ring ; which, whoever finds (as some old women and children are persuaded) shall prosper in all his undertakings.
Page 469 - They are small glass annulets, commonly about half as wide as our finger-rings, but much thicker, of a green colour usually, though some of them are blue, and others curiously waved with blue, red, and white.
Page 479 - In Thuringia it is considered that a string of rowan-berries, a rag, or any small article, touched by a sick person and then hung on a bush beside some forest path, imparts the malady to any person who may touch this article in passing, and frees the sick person from the disease.
Page 434 - ... the lord rade, and the foal slade; he lighted, and he righted, set joint to joint, bone to bone, and sinew to sinew, heal in the holy ghost's name!
Page 440 - Bannockburn, observed, on his standard being lifted one morning, a glittering something in a clod of earth hanging to the flagstaff. It was this stone. He showed it to his followers, and told them he felt sure its brilliant lights were a good omen and foretold a victory — and victory was won on the hard-fought field of Bannockburn. " From this time, whenever the clan was
Page 481 - ... Malcolm Campbell, steward of Harris, told me that some weeks before my arrival there, all his cows gave blood instead of milk, for several days together. One of the neighbours told his wife that this must be witchcraft, and it would be easy to remove it, if she would but take the white nut, called the Virgin Mary's Nut, and lay it in the pail into which she was to milk the cows. This advice she presently followed ; and...
Page 428 - OF THE Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology IN CONNECTION WITH HARVARD UNIVERSITY.
Page 466 - ... whence I gather they were not invented for charms, but were once used in shooting here, as they are still in America. The most curious as well as the vulgar throughout this country, are satisfied they often drop out of the air, being shot by fairies...
Page 487 - ... a mong men. 26 Sothely in the sixte monethe the aungel Gabriel was sent fro God in to a citee of Galilee, to which the name Nazareth, 27 To a mayden, weddid to a man, to whom the name was Joseph, of the house of Dauith ; and the name of the mayden Marie. 28 And the aungel gon yn to hir seide, Heil, ful of grace ; the Lord be with thee ; blessid be thou among wymmen. 29 Which, whanne she had herd, was troublid in his word, and t limr.ti: what maner salutacioun this was.
Page 449 - Distemper, they say the Stone removes out of the Bed of its own accord, and e contra. The Natives use this Stone for Swearing decisive Oaths upon it.

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