 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
 | Robert Waters - 1909 - 388 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, brownies, witches, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elf-candles, deadlights,... | |
 | Robert Waters - 1909 - 384 pages
...with the weird tales and idle superstitions of the peasantry. "In my infant and boyish days," he says, "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... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alexander Smith - 1910 - 706 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,... | |
 | John Alexander Joyce - 1910 - 156 pages
...years of age, I was a critic in substantives, verbs, and particles. In my 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... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke - 1911 - 444 pages
...years of age, I was a critic in substantives, verbs, and particles. In my 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... | |
 | Charles Morris - 1911 - 618 pages
...neighboring school, and received also, according to his own statements, valuable instructions from an old woman who resided in the family. "She had, I suppose," said he, "the largest collection in the country of tales and songs concerning devils, ghosts, fairies,... | |
 | 1912 - 882 pages
...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, spunkies, kelpies, elk-candles,... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1912 - 788 pages
...years of age, I was a critic in substantives, verbs, and particles. In my 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... | |
 | Ernest Rhys - 1913 - 410 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,... | |
 | William Allan Neilson - 1917 - 364 pages
...owed much to an old maid of my 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,... | |
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