 | Walter Scott - 1857 - 440 pages
...your due. Now, before such an event happens in this family and castle, the female spectre whom yon have seen always is visible. She is believed to be...family, he caused to be drowned in the Castle Moat.' NOTE H. ' Whose parents in Inch-Cailliach wave Their shadows o'er Clan-Alpine's grave.'— F. 227.... | |
 | John Timbs - 1861 - 302 pages
...oe the spirit of a woman of inferior rank, by marrying whom one of my ancestors degraded himself ; and whom afterwards, to expiate the dishonour done...family, he caused to be drowned in the castle moat." In the park of Chartley, near Lichfield, is preserved the breed of the indigenous Staffordshire cow,... | |
 | Sabine Baring-Gould - 1868 - 422 pages
...your due3. Now, before such an event happens in this family and castle, the female spectre whom ye have seen always is visible : she is believed to be...family, he caused to be drowned in the castle moat.' " A very remarkable story of the Banshee is given by Mr. Crofton Croker. The Rev. Charles Bunworth... | |
 | Omens - 1868 - 210 pages
...apparition. "A near reLUCK OF HORSE-SHOES. 87 lative of my family," said he, " expired last night in the castle. "We disguised our certain expectation of the...family, he caused to be drowned in the castle moat." LOCK OF HORSE-SHOES. BUTLER, in Hudibras, says of his conjuror, that he could " Chase evil spirits... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1870 - 798 pages
...whom one of my ancestors degraded himself by marrying, and whom afterwards, to expiate the dishononr done to his family, he caused to be drowned in the Castle Moat.' NOTE H. ' Whose parents in Inch-Cailliach wave Their shadows o'er Clan-Alpine's grave.' — P. 227.... | |
 | Sabine Baring-Gould - 1873 - 688 pages
...your due6. Now, before such an event happens in this family and castle, the female spectre whom ye have seen always is visible : she is believed to be...family, he caused to be drowned in the castle moat.' " A very remarkable story of the Banshee is given by Mr. Crofton Croker. The Rev. Charles Bunworth... | |
 | Bourchier Wrey Savile - 1874 - 306 pages
...happens in this family and this castle, the female apparition, or Ban-shee, whom you have seen, is always visible. She is. believed to be the spirit of a woman...family, he caused to be drowned in the castle moat." Such is the mode of accounting for the appearance of the Banshee as the harbinger of approaching death.... | |
 | 1882 - 202 pages
...my family," said he, "expired last night in the castle. We disguised our certain expectation of this event from you, lest it should throw a cloud over...family, he caused to be drowned in the castle moat." In the " Peveril of the Peak," Sir Walter mentions a similar female spirit or banshee, said to attend... | |
 | Harold Littledale - 1893 - 378 pages
...Before such an event happens in this family and castle, the female spectre whom you have seen is always visible. She is believed to be the spirit of a woman...family, he caused to be drowned in the castle moat.' " (That drowning a woman expiates the dishonour of marrying her both Lady Fanshaw and Mr. Dyer seem... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1896 - 222 pages
...whom one of my ancestors degraded himself by marrying, and whom afterwards, to expiate the dishonor done to his family, he caused to be drowned in the castle moat.' " 1048. Muse at me. Wonder at me. Cf. Macbeth, iii. 4. 85 : " Do not muse at me, my most worthy friends... | |
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A near relation of my family," said he, " expired last night in this castle. We disguised our certain expectation of the event from you, lest it should throw a cloud over the cheerful reception which was your due. Now, before such an event happens in... 
