Observations on Popular Antiquities Including the Whole of Mr. Bourne's Anti Quitates Vulgares Etc |
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... appear to any so fri- volous as not to have deserved the Pains of the Search , the humble Labourers will avoid Censure , by incurring Contempt . How trivial soever such an Enquiry may seem to some , yet all must be informed that it is ...
... appear to any so fri- volous as not to have deserved the Pains of the Search , the humble Labourers will avoid Censure , by incurring Contempt . How trivial soever such an Enquiry may seem to some , yet all must be informed that it is ...
Page viii
... or that Notion , or Cere- mony , to reflect , that what may appear foolish to the en lightened Understandings of Men in the Eighteenth Cen- tury , tury , wore a very different Aspect when viewed through viii THE GENERAL PREFACE .
... or that Notion , or Cere- mony , to reflect , that what may appear foolish to the en lightened Understandings of Men in the Eighteenth Cen- tury , tury , wore a very different Aspect when viewed through viii THE GENERAL PREFACE .
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... appear- ing with a Cloven Foot : Of Fairies and Hobgoblins : Of the walking Places of Spirits : And of haunted Houses . CHAP . XI . The Form of Exorcising an haunted House . CHAP . II . 113 137 Of Saturday Afternoon ; how observed of ...
... appear- ing with a Cloven Foot : Of Fairies and Hobgoblins : Of the walking Places of Spirits : And of haunted Houses . CHAP . XI . The Form of Exorcising an haunted House . CHAP . II . 113 137 Of Saturday Afternoon ; how observed of ...
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... appears to no great Advantage as an Antiquary , when he tells ushe could meet with no other Account of this " " Ceremony , than that it was a Custom of the old " Church of England . " The Passage above cited from Durand would have ...
... appears to no great Advantage as an Antiquary , when he tells ushe could meet with no other Account of this " " Ceremony , than that it was a Custom of the old " Church of England . " The Passage above cited from Durand would have ...
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... appears that among the primitive Christians the Corpse was sometimes kept four Dayst . Pe- lagiat , in Gregory of Turon , requests of her Son , that her Corpse may not be interred till after four Days . ceased at his Funeral . The ...
... appears that among the primitive Christians the Corpse was sometimes kept four Dayst . Pe- lagiat , in Gregory of Turon , requests of her Son , that her Corpse may not be interred till after four Days . ceased at his Funeral . The ...
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