The Evil Eye: An Account of this Ancient and Widespread Superstition

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J. Murray, 1895 - Всего страниц: 471
 

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Стр. 421 - When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay. And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is, by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing.
Стр. 247 - But Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon ; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side ; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.
Стр. 90 - It will have blood, they say ; blood will have blood : Stones have been known to move, and trees to speak ; Augurs, and understood relations, have By magot-pies, and choughs, and rooks, brought forth The secret'st man of blood.
Стр. 106 - He burneth part thereof in the fire, with part thereof he eateth flesh; he roasteth roast and is satisfied; yea, he warmeth himself and saith, "Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire." And the residue thereof he maketh a god, even his graven image; he falleth down unto it and worshippeth it and prayeth unto it and saith, "Deliver me; for thou art my God.
Стр. 221 - And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither : so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
Стр. 314 - The space between the two metce or goals was filled with statues and obelisks; and we may still remark a very singular fragment of antiquity — the bodies of three serpents twisted into one pillar of brass. Their triple heads had once supported the golden tripod which, after the defeat of Xerxes, was consecrated in the temple of Delphi by the victorious Greeks.
Стр. 426 - Then the young man said to the angel, Brother Azarias, to what use is the heart and the liver and the gall of the fish?
Стр. 217 - HANG up Hooks, and Sheers to scare Hence the Hag, that rides the Mare, Till they be all over wet, With the mire, and the sweat: This observ'd, the Manes shall be Of your horses, all knot-free.
Стр. 100 - they fancy a green bough of a tree fastened on May Day against the house will produce plenty of milk." In Germany also peasants set up May-trees, one for each horse or cow, before the stable doors, in order that the cows may give more milk. Moreover, May Day customs have always been accompanied by much dancing, which has been held to have a mystic meaning in connection with fertility, lsl Mannhardt, Der Baumbultur der Gernutnen ttnd ihrer Nacbborslammc, p.
Стр. 335 - About a year after, having sacrificed a sow to Ceres, they were admitted to the greater mysteries, the secret rites of which (some few excepted, to which none but priests were conscious) were frankly revealed to them ; whence they were called 'i^ia, and iirormu, ie inspectors.

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