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39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"from": "human",
"value": "Luck of Edenhall,"
}
] |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mythology of the Aryan Nations, ranks this cup amongst the numerous phallic symbols. Referring to this subject, he says:--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We have seen the myth starting from its crude and undisguised form, assume the more harmless shape of goblets or ... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "First Principles, when treating of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Laws in General, argues elaborately on the order in which the sense of law, or a recognition of"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "which the term implies, was gradually developed in the human... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "(or soma)"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "[9] The purely figurative character of this is easily seen. It is but another form of expressing the fertilisation of the earth by means of the rain which is engendered by the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The c... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If the name of the German river _Elbe_ (Albis) be derived from this source, the probability is heightened that the Abus of Ptolemy may have intimate relationship to the Aryan Arbhus, or Ribhus. These mystic beings were followers, like the Bhrigus and the Maruts, of Agni and Indr... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We see how the cruder idea of the Ribhus sweeping trees and rocks in wild dance before them by the force of their stormy song grew under the beautifying touch of the Hellenic imagination into the legend of that master of the lyre whose magic tones made _torrents pause and listen... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When the sun was still a wheel, a store of gold, a swan or a flamingo, an eagle, falcon, horse, and many other things, it was also the eye of Varuna; just as amongst the Anglo-Saxons and other Germans it was held to be the eye of Woden. Varuna and Mithra (the friend), _the god o... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Origin of Language,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To call things which we have never seen before by the name of that which most nearly resembles them is a practice of every-day life. That children at first call all men 'father' and all women 'mother' is an observati... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pre-historic Nations, contends that the Phœnicians, as well as the ancient Egyptians and others, were descended from the old Cushite Arabs, and were therefore"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hamitic rather than"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Semitic"
}... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Varuna and the demon Vitri both derive their names from var, vri, to cover, to enfold."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mythology of the Aryan Nations has been published. At page 78, vol. 2, speaking of the youth of Paris, the seducer of Helen, he says:--"
},
{
... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Popish, in no way invalidates the assignment to them of an Aryan origin. As early as the eleventh century, in the reign of Canute the Great, we find laws strictly prohibiting the people from worshipping, or venerating,"
}
] |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If a king's thane deny this (_the practice of heathen superstition_), let twelve be appointed for him, and let him take twelve of his kindred (or equals, _maga_), and twelve British strangers; and if he fail, then let him pay for his breach of law, twelve half-marcs: if a landow... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A similar authority says,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fire and red low Light on my _teen low_."
}
] |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Historic Society, have furnished some curious information of a local character with reference to this ancient fire-worship. The latter says:--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Such fires are still lighted in Lancashire, on Ha... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Journey into Ashango-land and further penetration into Equatorial Africa, speaks of a certain superstitious reverence for fire and faith in its medical virtues by the inhabitants of the region he traversed. He relates the following beautiful story respecting their astronomical n... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Land's End District, gives a very graphic account of the bonfires lighted up in Cornwall on _Midsummer eve_. Some of the details sufficiently resemble those of our northern"
}
] |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "On these eves a line of tar barrels, relieved occasionally by large bonfires, is seen in the centre of each of the principal streets in Penzance. On either side of this line, young men and women pass up and down, swinging round their heads heavy torches made of large pieces of f... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The elder fire-gods, Agni and Rudra, he says,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and he regards Prometheus as the Greek form of this word. He calls attention to the fact that Diodorus says of the celebrated Titan, that"
},
... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The accounts given by the Irish newspapers of the extent to which the old superstition of fire-lighting on Midsummer eve still prevails show how slowly the relics of Paganism disappear among country people, and how natural it was that the old idolatries should come at last to be... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "but it appears that the quaint old writer, after all, is but relating that which was believed to be true in his own age, and which after-gained knowledge enables us to distinguish as a remnant of the old Aryan superstition or myth, in a mediæval dress. These rolling fiery wheels... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lightning is produced by the rubbing together of clouds, after the manner of flints struck together, the thunder occurring at the same time, but sound reaches the ears more slowly than light the eyes. For all things the collision creates fire. Some say that while air draws water... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "From the Pagans the use of these charms passed to the Basilidians, and in their Abraxas, the traces of the antient Mithras and the more modern St. George, are equally visible. In the dark ages, the Christians borrowed their superstitions from the heretics, but they disguised the... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The King (Henry III.) schewed forth his schild his Dragon full austere."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and so procure some soma or drink of the gods, or milk the heavenly cows (the clouds) wherewith to slake their grievous thirst. They coiled this great serpent aroun... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Conquest of Britain by the Saxons, the scene of the fine old Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf, was near Hartlepool, in the county of Durham, that these monster worm traditions of the north of England may be the remains of the mythic superstitions therein embodied.[16] The giant and spri... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The grim guest was Grendel, he that held the moors, the fen, and fastness. Forbidden the homes of mankind, the daughters of Cain brought forth in darkness misshapen giants, elves, and orkens, such giants as long warred with God, and he was one of these."
},
{
"from": "gp... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "History of Britain, is full of malignant dragons, white and red, which fight furiously, and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The red dragon, in one instance, the prophet says,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She shall be encompassed with the adder of Linco... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A. 793. This year dire forewarnings came over the land of the North-humbrians, and miserably terrified the people; these were excessive whirlwinds and _lightnings_; and _fiery dragons_ were seen flying in the air. _A great famine soon followed these tokens._"
},
{
"from"... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "AN ASTRONOMICAL PREDICTION.--The _Urdu Akhbar_ says that Maulvi Mohammed Salimuz-yaman, the famous astronomer of Rampur, whose deductions have generally turned out right, has foretold that in the coming year (1872) a blaze of light resembling a shooting star, the like of which n... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hence the serpent became his symbol. At Epidaurus the god was supposed to manifest himself in the form of a yellowish brown snake, abundant in that neighbourhood. It frequented the temple, was large in size, but harmless and easily tamed. The Rev. G. W. Cox, says,"
},
{
... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Chambers's Journal, discoursing on dragon superstitions, have suggested, as remains of the traditionary Moa of New Zealand is still said to be found in some portions of the islands, that our early ancestors may have had a slight knowledge of the existence of some of the huge sau... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Journey to Ashango-land, relates a story in which he suddenly struck a light with a lucifer match, to the astonishment of the benighted Africans, who regarded the feat as an additional proof of his being the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oguisi or"
},
{
"fro... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "as the English equivalent of _Ophidia_, the name of his eleventh order of the class _Reptilia_. Hence the confusion of traditionary worms, serpents, and dragons is not quite so absurd as modern non-scientific persons generally imagine. The Rev. G. W. Cox, referring to the Greek ... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Merrie Christmas, indeed, in spite of hail and rain, and sleet, and snow, the blustering of old Boreas, and the frigid embrace of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Jack Frost, has passed into a proverb. The mass of the British people, notwithstanding their characteristi... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and Christmas fires, Brand says:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "However this may be, I am pretty confident that the yule block will be found, in its first use, to have been only a counterpart of the Midsummer fires, made within doors because of the cold weather at th... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "On the night of this eve our ancestors were wont to light up candles of _an uncommon size_, called Christmas candles, and lay a log of wood upon the fire, called a yule-clog or Christmas block, to illuminate the house, and, as it were, turn night into day. This custom is, in som... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A Vindication of the Solemnity of the Nativity of Christ, was published in 1648, is strongly in favour of this view. He says:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If it doth appeare that the time of this festival doth comply with the time of the heathen's _Saturnalia_, thi... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have met with no word of which there are so many and such different etymologies as this of Yule, of which there seems nothing certain but that it means Christmas. Some writers, including the venerable Bede, derive it from _hveol_, the Anglo-Saxon form of our modern English wor... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Histrio-Mastrix, or a Scourge for Stage Players,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If we now parallel our grand disorderly Christmases with these Roman Saturnals and heathen festivals, or our New Yeare's Day (a chiefe part of Christmas), with their festivity of Janus, w... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Young women went about with a Wassail Bowl of spiced ale, with some sort of verses that were sung by them as they went from door to door. This liquor was sometimes called"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lamb's Wool, although it is difficult to conjecture now for what ... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "On one side the word _Wass-heil_ is inscribed, and on the other _Drinc-heile_. A commentator on this relic informs us that it represents a Wassel Bowl, so beloved of yore by our hardy ancestors,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Naogeorgus, but generally styled the"
}... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, poor Joe, God rest his soul! He has, at least, gone to his long rest wi' a bally full o' good me-at, and that's some consolation. This seems to illustrate the meaning of the last couplet in the quotation from"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Naogeorgus,"
}
] |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Curious Myths of the Middle Ages, says"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and consequently included our new year and twelfth night festivities. During this period a strong superstition yet obtains in Lancashire and Yorkshire respecting fire. A singular instance of this r... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rother-bart, Teufelsart, or"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Red-beard, devil-steered."
}
] |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Popular Customs and Superstitions in Lancashire, referring to the practice of divination at this season of the year, says:--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "When a Lancashire damsel desires to know what sort of a husband she will have, on New Year's Eve she pours some... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "the character of the weather, and influencing the vegetation of the coming year, by ceremonies and observations of atmospheric effects, at its commencement, or on New Year's Day, appears to be prefigured in the ancient Aryan mythology. On this subject Walter Kelly says:--"
},
... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "March borrowed from April Three days, and they were ill; The first o' them war wind an' weet, The next o' them war snaw an' sleet, The last o' them war wind an' rain, Which gaed the silly pair ewes come toddling hame."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "origin amongst the... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This healing virtue, which the mistletoe shares with the ash, says Kelly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This heavenly asvattha is the _ficus religiosa_, or"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and it is supposed to... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jack, of nursery story, climbed till he reached cloud-land, the abode of fairies and giants, is, unquestionably, a remnant of the Scandinavian yggdrasil, or cloud-tree. Beans and peas, as will be hereafter shown, in the Aryan myths, were connected with celestial fire, and with d... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In the Arboretum at Kew gardens, Miss Pratt informs us, in her"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Flowers, and their Associations, there is a tree of this kind which"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The thorn, as I shall afterwards show, was an Aryan"
},
... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Athenian Oracle"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why does the sun at his rising play more on Easter-day than Whitsunday? The matter of fact is an old weak, superstitious error, and the sun neither plays nor works on Easter-day more than any other. It's true, it may som... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Discovery of Witchcraft,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In some countries they run out of the doors in time of tempest, blessing themselves with a cheese (another sun emblem, owing to its form),"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "as it was termed. One of th... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The young chimney sweepers, some of whom are fantastically dressed in girls' clothes, with a great profusion of brick-dust, by way of paint, gilt paper, &c., making a noise with their shovels and brushes, are now the most striking object in the celebration of May-day in the stre... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Byeways of Europe, gives an interesting account of Andorra, a little republic situated in the heart of the Pyrenees, between France and Spain. This secluded state has enjoyed an independent existence since the days of Charlemagne, and the manners and customs of its inhabitants a... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thor's hammer, the consecrator of marriage. The latter was unquestionably one form of the many phallic symbols. Mr. Baring-Gould notices the prohibitions issued at various times against the carrying about of ploughs and ships, especially on Shrove Tuesday, because they were phal... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "referring to this subject, says,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do our Ritualists eat hot cross-buns on Good Friday? Perhaps they do not, but consider the consumption of such cakes to be a weak concession to the childish appetites of those who would not duly observe ... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "was in Saxon times employed to designate a finer or superior kind of bread or cake. It occurs in the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lay of Havelock the Dane, a French romance, abridged by Geoffroi Gaimer, the Anglo-Norman trouvère. This"
},
{
"from": "human",... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Festival, published in 1511, it is said to have been likewise called"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Shere Thursday, because"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "After the distribution of the alms in meat, drink, clothing, and money, it was customary for royal... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I found that the Waganda have the same absurd notion here as the Wangambo have in Karagué, of Kamrasi's supernatural power in being able to divide the waters of the Nile in the same manner that Moses did the Red Sea."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Flora Symbolica, in... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll to thee a _simnel_ bring, 'Gainst thou go a-mothering; So that, when she blesses thee, Half that blessing thou'lt give me."
}
] |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mina-Bealtine to the flowery month. Brand says:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In honour of May-day, the Goths and Southern Swedes had a mock battle between summer and winter, which ceremony is retained in the Isle of Man, where the Danes and Norwegians had been for ... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "April fool"
}
] |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "On May-day the choristers assemble on the top to usher in the spring. Oxonians of the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "appear to have welcomed the season not simply by blowing lustily through cows' horns, but by drinking deeply from cups fashioned therefrom. Herne says... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Against May, every parish, town, and village assembled themselves together, both men, women, and children, old and young, even all indifferently, and either going all together or dividing themselves into companies, they go, some to the woods and groves, some to the hills and mou... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "On May-day, in the morning, every man, except impediment, would walke into the sweete meadowes and greene woods, there to rejoyce their spirites with the beauty and savour of sweete flowers, and with the harmony of birds praysing God in their kind. I find also that in the moneth... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "of the Vedic hymns. No doubt, some genuine love-making, as well as much licentiousness, has resulted from the observance of such ceremonies. It was formerly a custom, for milkmaids especially, in various parts of the country, to dance around a"
}
] |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They used to dress themselves in holiday guise on this morning, and come in bands with fiddles, whereto they danced, attended by a strange-looking pyramidal pile, covered with pewter plates, ribands, and streamers, either borne by a man upon his head or by two men upon a hand-ba... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shall never forget the delight I felt on first seeing a May-pole. It was on the banks of the Dee, close by the picturesque old bridge that stretches across the river from the quaint little city of Chester. I had already been carried back into former days by the antiquities of ... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hurrah for merry England, and The raising of the May-pole; When the good old times had carol rhymes, With morris games and village chimes; When clown and priest shared cup and feast, And the greatest jostled with the least, At the"
}
] |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "or"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "rods were made from both the black and the white thorn. Walter Kelly says,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The wood of the thorn (ramnos) was used by the Greeks for the drilling stick of their pyreia (or fire-producing c... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Great Rebellion. Collinson says,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is strange to see how much this tree was sought after by the credulous; and, though a common thorn, Queen Anne, King James, and many of the nobility of the realm, even when the times of monkish supers... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sacred Trees and Flowers, says,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The white thorn is one of the trees most in favour with the small people [the fairies];"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The writer attributes this peculiar sanctity of the white thorn to the ... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My wife away down with Jane and W. Hewer to Woolwich, in order to a little ayre, and to lay there to-night, and so to gather May dew to-morrow morning, which Mrs. Turner hath taught her is the only thing in the world to wash her face with; and I am contented with it. Kelly says:... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and dark _séance_ performers, who supply writing done by invisible hands, and cause heads to be thumped by malignant imps in the shape of discordant fiddles, trumpets, and tambourines. This modern necromancery, it must not be forgotten, is performed under aristocratic patronage,... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "People of India, speaks of magicians who make small images in mud or clay, and write the names of the objects of their animosity on the breasts thereof. These are afterwards pierced with thorns or otherwise mutilated,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Druidical nunnery,... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No one endued with common sense but will deny that the elements are obedient to witches and at their commandment, or that they may, at their pleasure, send rain, hail, tempests, thunder, lightning, when she, being but an old doting woman, casteth a flint stone over her left shou... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "State Trials,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Our mothers' mayds terrifie us with the ouglie devil, with hornes on his head, fier in his mouth, a huge tayle in his breach, eies like basons, fangs like a boar, claws like a tiger, a skin like a bear, and a voice roaring... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Memoirs of Du Clercq,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A few obscure persons were accused of '_vauderie_, or witchcraft.' After their condemnation, which was founded on confessions obtained by torture, and afterwards retracted, an epidemical contagion of superstitious ... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Observations on the Religio Medici, after expressing his doubts, he adds:--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Neither do I deny there are witches; I only reserve my assent till I meet with stronger motives to carry it."
}
] |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For all sorts of agues, I have of late tried the following magnetical experiment with infallible success. Pare the patient's nails when the fit is coming on, and put the parings into a little bag of fine linen or sarsanet, and tie that about a live eel's neck in a tub of water. ... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The greatest news from the country is of a huge pack of witches which are lately discovered in Lancashire, whereof 'tis said 19 are condemned, and that there are at least 60 already discovered, and yet daily there are more revealed: there are divers of them of good ability, and ... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "entitled"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "England's Grievance Discovered in Relation to the Coal-Trade, and published in 1655. It appears that about five or six years previously, the magistrates of the borough had sent two of their sergeants into Scotland,"
},
{
... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Demonomanie des Sorciers, published in 1587, says,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "On half-proof or strong presumption, the judge may proceed to torture. The judge might, moreover, in his opinion, lie with impunity, and promise a suspected person a pardon on confessio... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Celt, Roman, and Saxon,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They are sometimes regarded as the three Fates--the _norni_ of the north, the _wæleyrian_ of the Anglo-Saxons (the weird sisters, transformed in Shakspere into three witches) disposing of the fates of individuals... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In the opening scene in Macbeth, the well-known trio, at the conclusion of their _séance_,"
}
] |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When Banquo asks Macbeth,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Whither are they vanished?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They made themselves--air, into which they vanished."
}
] |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Locke's music,"
}
] |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "seems not to have clearly interpreted the mythic import of the sieve. He, however, expressly says that it"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Liebrecht speaks of a tribe of water-spirits, or cloud-gods, the Draci of Languedoc, with"
}
] |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "a gigantic dun cow appeared and gave an almost unlimited supply of milk, which saved the inhabitants from death. An old woman--of the witch fraternity, I suspect--however, with the view to obtain from the beast more than the usual number of pails-full, milked the cow with a siev... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Huddersford Wiccamical Chaplet,"
}
] |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Curiosities of Natural History, says,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Amusements for the Meridian of London, 1700) mentions a remarkable superstitious reverence for the milk of a red cow. Referring to the Green Walk, St. James's Park, London, he says:"
},
{
"f... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Medicine Boke, published in the latter portion of the seventeenth century. _Red_ is especially mentioned as the colour of the heifer set apart for sacrifice for the purification of sin in Numbers, chapter 19; and _scarlet_ is specified as the colour of one of the articles"
}
] |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Has not the Scotchman's"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ancient and Modern Manners of the Irish, Camden says:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If a cow becomes dry a witch is applied to, who, inspiring her with a fondness for some other calf, makes her yie... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The hare is no doubt mythically connected with the phenomena of the sky, but upon what natural grounds it has been credited with such meteoric relations is a point not yet determined. I incline to think it will be found to lie, in part at least, in the habits which the animal di... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, when discussing the probabilities of the guilt or innocence of the Knights Templars, concerning which there still exists great diversity of opinion, refers to the evidence adduced by M. von Hammer as the most difficult of refut... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Asiatic Register, for 1801, the Eastern, as well as the European witches,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is regarded as"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In the Mark, an old broom is burned in order to raise a wind. Sailors, after long toiling against a... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lancashire witches of the present day do"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "upon their masculine friends, though in a more pleasing form and agreeable manner than their haggard and aged predecessors, it is not improbable that the emblem of power may have accompanied the ... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "LINGERING SUPERSTITION.--At Wincanton, in Somersetshire, the magistrates have had before them a charge arising out of the belief in witchcraft which still prevails in that county. Ann Green accused a labourer named William Higham of assaulting her. It appeared that the defendant... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "From Kawhia we hear of wars and rumours of wars, instigated probably by the desire of the semi-friendly natives there to be put on rations and receive pay. Hone Wetere (John Wesley) late native magistrate there, who was deposed from his office four years ago for the abduction of... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The migration of the tribes, as I have already observed, seems to have followed the same laws as migrations among ourselves; I did not meet with a single tribe or clan who said they came from the west; they all pointed to the east as the place they came from."
},
{
"from... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "History of Signboards, a representation of a public-house"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "copied from a MS. of the fourteenth century. The implement, in this instance, is evidently a common broom or besom. Hence it is not at all improbable that the Lancashire Benedict... |
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