Gaelic Incantations, Charms and Blessings of the Hebrides: With Translations and Parallel Illustrations from Irish, Manx, Norse, and Other Superstitions

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Northern Counties Newspaper and Printing and Publishing Company, Limited, 1895 - 89 σελίδες
 

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Σελίδα 69 - I to the hills will lift mine eyes, from whence doth come mine aid, My safety cometh from the Lord, who Heaven and Earth hath made.
Σελίδα 66 - 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.
Σελίδα 28 - Thou silver glow-worm, oh lend me thy light, I must gather the mystic St John's Wort to-night — The wonderful herb, whose leaf will decide If the coming year shall make me a bride.
Σελίδα 64 - A Charm to Stop Bleeding. Sanguis mane in te, Sicut Christus in se ; Sanguis mane in tua vena, Sicut Christus in sua poena ; Sanguis mane fix us, Sicut erat Christus, Quando fuit crucifixus.
Σελίδα 14 - When he had done thus, the wife gave exceeding great love to him, so that she could not keep apart from him, even on one side of the house; but she was always at one of his hands. He went one day on a journey and left the wife asleep. When the woman awoke she rose up lightly and went after the husband; and saw him afar from her, with an arm of the sea between them. She cried out to her husband and said that she would go into the sea unless he came to her.
Σελίδα 61 - ... first volume (Leechdoms , Wortcunning and Starcraft of Early England, London 1864 p. 392) we have the passage referred to by Prof. Bugge. It is a spell against the Stitch — from a Ms.
Σελίδα 42 - Four caused your hurtMan and Wife, Young man, and maiden. Who is to frustrate that ? The three Persons of the most Holy Trinity, The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
Σελίδα 21 - And this is a corslet of faith for the protection of body and soul against demons and human beings and vices.
Σελίδα 74 - s gu cur ba air laogh.1 Translated— Thursday, gentle Saint Columba's Day. The day to put sheep to pasture To warp, and cow to calf. Adamnati tells us of the Saint blessing cattle, and their number increasing. Nesan, a poor man, who entertained Columba for the night, had five heifers. " Bring them to me that I may bless them," said the Saint. They were brought. He raised his holy hand, blessed them, and said — •" From this day thy five little heifers shall increase to the number of one hundred...
Σελίδα 28 - And when a year was passed away, All pale on her bier the young maid lay ; And the glow-worm came, With its silvery flame, And sparkled and shone Through the night of St John ; And they closed the cold grave o'er the maid's cold clay.

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