 | 1815 - 586 páginas
...book, kept for the purpose, the name of the person on whom it was •wished it should fall. A pi'i was then dropped into the well in the name of the...report, that such a one had been put into the well, coon reached the ears of the object of revenge. If this object were a person of a credulous disposition,... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1825 - 392 páginas
...book, kept for the purpose, the name of the individual upon whose hapless head the malediction was to fall. A pin was then dropped into the well, in the...the victim, and the report that such a one had been thus put into the well soon reached the ears of the devoted person. If the individual were cursed with... | |
 | 1823 - 816 páginas
...registered in a book, kept for the purpose, the name of the person upon whose head the malediction was to fall. A pin was then dropped into the well, in the name of the victim, and the repon that such a one had been thus put into the well soon reached the ears of the devoted person.... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1825 - 388 páginas
...book, kept for the purpose, the name of the individual upon whose hapless head the malediction was to fall. A pin was then dropped into the well, in the...the victim, and the report that such a one had been thus put into the well soon reached the ears of the devoted person. If the individual were cursed with... | |
 | 1825 - 392 páginas
...book, kept for the purpose, the name of the individual upon whose hapless head the malediction was to fall. A pin was then dropped into the well, in the...the victim, and the report that such a one had been thus put into the well soon reached the ears of the devoted person. If the individual were cursed with... | |
 | 1825 - 390 páginas
...book, kept for the purpose, the name of the individual upon whose hapless head the malediction was to fall. A pin was then dropped into the well, in the...the victim, and the report that such a one had been thus put into the well soon reached the ears of the devoted person. If the individual were cursed with... | |
 | 1837 - 538 páginas
...book kept for the purpose, the name of the individual upon whose hapless head the malediction was to fall. A pin was then dropped into the well, in the...the victim, and the report that such a one had been thus put into the well, soon reached the ear of the devoted person. If the individual were cursed with... | |
 | George Laurence Gomme - 1889 - 466 páginas
...a woman who officiated as priestess. To her the person who wished to inflict a curse upon an enemy resorted, and for a trifling sum she registered in...dropped into the well in the name of the victim, and the curse was complete.2 The whole of this ceremony is both anti-Christian and totemistic. In the first... | |
 | George Laurence Gomme - 1892 - 218 páginas
...registered, in a book kept for the purpose, the name of the person on whom the curse was wished to fall. A pin was then dropped into the well in the name of the victim, and the curse was complete.2 1 Arch. Comb., 1st Ser., i. 184 ; Wirt Sikes, British Goblins, p. 329. 2 Roberts,... | |
 | Alfred Cort Haddon - 1898 - 468 páginas
...she registered in a book kept for the purpose the name of the person on whom the curse was wished to fall. A pin was then dropped into the well in the name of the victim, and the curse was complete. 1 Henderson, Folk-lore of the .Northern Counties, p. 230. * Gentleman's Magazine,... | |
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... head the malediction was to fall. A pin was then dropped into the well, in the name of the victim, and the report that such a one had been thus put into the well soon reached the ears of the devoted person. If the individual were... 