 I owed much to an old woman who resided in the family, remarkable for her ignorance, credulity, and superstition. She had, I suppose, the largest collection in the country of tales and songs concerning devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks,...  The human mind, a discourse on its acquirements and history - Page 286by Stephen Watson Fullom - 1858Full view - About this book
 | Gabriel Setoun - 1896 - 168 pages
...he owed to an old maid of his mother's, remarkable for her ignorance, credulity, and superstition. 'She had, I suppose, the largest collection in the country of tales and songs concerning devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elf-candles,... | |
 | Sir William Alexander Craigie - 1896 - 244 pages
...woman, named Betty Davidson, who lived with the family, he received learning of a different stamp. "She had, I suppose, the largest collection in the country of tales and songs concerning devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elf-candles,... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alexander Smith - 1896 - 710 pages
...an old woman who resided in the family, remarkable for her ignorance, credulity, and superstition. She had, I suppose, the largest collection in the country of tales and songs concerning devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elf-candles,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1896 - 428 pages
...to an old woman who visited in the family remarkable for her ignorance, credulity, and superstition. She had, I suppose, the largest collection in the country of tales and songs concerning devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elf-candles,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1898 - 168 pages
...resided in the family, and who was remarkable for superstitious credulity. Of this woman, Burns writes : "She had, I suppose, the largest collection in the country of tales and songs concerning devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, kelpies, wraiths, apparitions,... | |
 | Robert Burns, Nathan Haskell Dole - 1900 - 490 pages
...an old woman who resided in the family, remarkable for her ignorance, credulity, and superstition. She had, I suppose, the largest collection in the country of tales and songs concerning devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elf-candles,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1907 - 176 pages
...family an old woman " remarkable for her ignorance, credulity, and superstition." Of her he says, " She had, I suppose, the largest collection in the country of tales and songs concerning devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spunkies, cantraips, giants,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1884 - 892 pages
...particular designation of mind which is commonly called genius." " In шу infant and boyish days, too, I owed much to an old woman who resided in the family, remarkable for her ignorance, credulity, and superstition. She had, I suppose, the largest collection... | |
 | George Iles - 1908 - 202 pages
...an old woman who resided in the family, remarkable for her ignorance, credulity, and superstition. She had, I suppose, the largest collection in the country of tales and songs concerning devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elf-candles,... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1908 - 562 pages
...an old woman who resided in the family, remarkable for her ignorance, credulity, and superstition. She had, I suppose, the largest collection in the country of tales and songs concerning devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies witches, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elf-candles,... | |
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