Observations on Popular Antiquities: Including the Whole of Mr. Bourne's Antiquitates Vulgares, with Addenda to Every Chapter of that Work: as Also an Appendix Containing Such Articles on the Subject as Have Been Omitted by that AuthorVernor, Hood and Sharpe ..., James Cundee ..., and W. Baynes, 1810 - Christian antiquities - 471 pages |
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Page 102
... Divination . They were never killed for the Table . ' Tis perhaps from hence that they have been accounted ominous by the Vulgar . Cæsar . p . 89 . Editha persuaded her Husband to build a Monastery at Osney , upon the chattering of Pies ...
... Divination . They were never killed for the Table . ' Tis perhaps from hence that they have been accounted ominous by the Vulgar . Cæsar . p . 89 . Editha persuaded her Husband to build a Monastery at Osney , upon the chattering of Pies ...
Page 103
... Divination , by opening the Old or New Testament . Mr. Pennant gives us an Ac- count of another Sort of Divination , used in Scot- land , called " reading the Speal Bone , or the Blade- " bone of a Shoulder of Mutton well scraped ...
... Divination , by opening the Old or New Testament . Mr. Pennant gives us an Ac- count of another Sort of Divination , used in Scot- land , called " reading the Speal Bone , or the Blade- " bone of a Shoulder of Mutton well scraped ...
Page 106
... Divination † prac- tised by antient Superstition . - The Druids inter- preted Omens , and doubtless both invented ... Divination by Frankincense : - Onychomancy or Ony- mancy , Divination perforined by the Nails of an unpolluted Boy.- In ...
... Divination † prac- tised by antient Superstition . - The Druids inter- preted Omens , and doubtless both invented ... Divination by Frankincense : - Onychomancy or Ony- mancy , Divination perforined by the Nails of an unpolluted Boy.- In ...
Page 108
... Divination by the Lines of the Hand , has been deservedly exploded , though the Gipsies still make Pretensions to the Knowledge of it . Sailors , usually the boldest Men alive , are yet frequently the very abject Slaves of superstitious ...
... Divination by the Lines of the Hand , has been deservedly exploded , though the Gipsies still make Pretensions to the Knowledge of it . Sailors , usually the boldest Men alive , are yet frequently the very abject Slaves of superstitious ...
Page 251
... Divinations forbid , as being some of those Things which provoked the LORD to anger against King * Manasses , who used Lots and Divinations , & c . upon which the Scholiast hath these Words . + The Custom of drawing Lots was after this ...
... Divinations forbid , as being some of those Things which provoked the LORD to anger against King * Manasses , who used Lots and Divinations , & c . upon which the Scholiast hath these Words . + The Custom of drawing Lots was after this ...
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