Faiths and Folklore of the British Isles: A Descriptive and Historical Dictionary of the Superstitions, Beliefs and Popular Customs of England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland, from Norman Times to the End of the Nineteenth Century, with Classical and Foreign Analogues, Volume 1B. Blom, 1965 - 672 páginas |
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... Death - Howl . - Howling at funerals appears to have been of general use in the Papal times from the following passage in Veron , in his Hunting of Purgatory , 1561 , where , speaking of St. Chrysostom , he says : " No mention at al ...
... Death - Howl . - Howling at funerals appears to have been of general use in the Papal times from the following passage in Veron , in his Hunting of Purgatory , 1561 , where , speaking of St. Chrysostom , he says : " No mention at al ...
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... death : the same they conclude by the much crying of owles in the night , neer their houses at such a time , " according to the author of Demonology , 1597. Weren- fels says , p . 7 , " The superstitious person could wish indeed that ...
... death : the same they conclude by the much crying of owles in the night , neer their houses at such a time , " according to the author of Demonology , 1597. Weren- fels says , p . 7 , " The superstitious person could wish indeed that ...
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... death in a family . The small scarab called the Death - Watch ( Scarabaeus galeatus pulsa- tor ) is frequent among dust and in decayed rotten wood , lonely and retired . It is one of the smallest of the Vagipennia , of a dark brown ...
... death in a family . The small scarab called the Death - Watch ( Scarabaeus galeatus pulsa- tor ) is frequent among dust and in decayed rotten wood , lonely and retired . It is one of the smallest of the Vagipennia , of a dark brown ...
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Faiths and Folklore of the British Isles: A Descriptive and ..., Volume 1 William Carew Hazlitt Visualização de excertos - 1965 |
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