Credulities Past and Present: Including the Sea and Seamen, Miners, Amulets and Talismans, Rings, Word and Letter Divination, Numbers, Trials, Exorcising and Blessing of Animals, Birds, Eggs, and Luck |
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... mentions : " This or that man was the first to meet me when I walked out ; consequently innumerable ills will certainly befal me : that confounded servant of mine , in giving me my shoes , handed me the left shoe first ; this indicates ...
... mentions : " This or that man was the first to meet me when I walked out ; consequently innumerable ills will certainly befal me : that confounded servant of mine , in giving me my shoes , handed me the left shoe first ; this indicates ...
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... mentions having seen an image of the Virgin Mary at Venice , to which great miracles were attributed . All ships that came into the haven used to salute this image and that of St. Mark , by firing guns . A mer- chant of Venice , saved ...
... mentions having seen an image of the Virgin Mary at Venice , to which great miracles were attributed . All ships that came into the haven used to salute this image and that of St. Mark , by firing guns . A mer- chant of Venice , saved ...
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... mention is made that a law - suit was successfully carried on by the Convent of Westminster against the Rector of Rotherhithe in 1282 , on the ground that St. Peter had granted the first haul . The parish clergy , however , struggled ...
... mention is made that a law - suit was successfully carried on by the Convent of Westminster against the Rector of Rotherhithe in 1282 , on the ground that St. Peter had granted the first haul . The parish clergy , however , struggled ...
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... mentions a set of priestesses , in the Island of Sena ( Ile des Saints ) , on the coast of Gaul , who were said to control the winds and the waves by their enchantments . Eolus is stated in the " Odyssey " to have possessed these powers ...
... mentions a set of priestesses , in the Island of Sena ( Ile des Saints ) , on the coast of Gaul , who were said to control the winds and the waves by their enchantments . Eolus is stated in the " Odyssey " to have possessed these powers ...
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... mentions a belief that the hurricanes so frequent in the Gulf of Carnero were occasioned by sorcerers , who , when offended , kindled great fires in their caverns in the mountains ; and that the earth , enraged with the pain which this ...
... mentions a belief that the hurricanes so frequent in the Gulf of Carnero were occasioned by sorcerers , who , when offended , kindled great fires in their caverns in the mountains ; and that the earth , enraged with the pain which this ...
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