 Of the early history of this idol no authentic information can be procured, but its power is believed to be immense ; they pray to it in time of sickness, it is invoked when a storm is desired...  A Lady's Cruise in a French Man-of-war - Page 211by Constance Frederica Gordon Cumming - 1882 - 365 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Conger Pell - Anecdotes - 1857 - 444 pages
...the open practice of pagan idolatry. In the south island a stone idol, called in the Irish jVw vouyi, has been from time immemorial religiously preserved...flannel, which arises from the custom of dedicating to it a dress of that material whenever its aid is sought; this is sewed on by an old woman, its priestess.... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - Anecdotes - 1857 - 436 pages
...open practice of pagan idolatry. In the south island a stone idol, called in the Irish Nee" vougi, has been from time immemorial religiously preserved...flannel, which arises from the custom of dedicating to it a dress of that material whenever its aid is sought ; this is sewed on by an old woman, its priestess.... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - Anecdotes - 1857 - 444 pages
...the open practice of pagan idolatry. In the south island a stone idol, called in the Irish JVeevougi, has been from time immemorial religiously preserved...god resembles in appearance a thick roll of homespun flaunel, which arises from the custom of dedicating to it a dress of that material whenever its aid... | |
 | George Turner - Missions - 1861 - 592 pages
...the south island, in the house of a man named Monigan, a stone idol, called in the Irish ' Neevougi,' has been from time immemorial religiously preserved...that material to it whenever its aid is sought ; this is sewn on by an old woman, its priestess, whose peculiar care it is. Of the early history of this... | |
 | English literature - 1861 - 600 pages
...the open practice of pagan idolatry. In the south island a stone idol, called in the Irish Neevongi, has been from time immemorial religiously preserved...flannel, which arises from the custom of dedicating to it a dress of that material whenever its aid is sought : this is sewed on by an old woman, its priestess.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1861 - 604 pages
...the open practice of pagan idolatry. In the south island a stone idol, called in the Irish Neevongi, has been from time immemorial religiously preserved...flannel, which arises from the custom of dedicating to it a dress of that material whenever its aid is sought : this is sewed on by an old woman, its priestess.... | |
 | 1861 - 654 pages
...png:m idolatry. In the south island a stone idol, called in the Irish Neevougi, has been from lime immemorial religiously preserved and worshipped. This...flannel, which arises from the custom of dedicating to it a dress of that material whenever its aid is sought:, this is sowed on by an old woman, its priestess.... | |
 | Anonymous - 1861 - 604 pages
...the open practice of pagan idolatry. In the south island a stone idol, called in the Irish Neevongi, has been from time immemorial religiously preserved...worshipped. This god resembles in appearance a thick roll of homespnn flannel, which irises from the custom of dedicating to it a dress of that material whenever... | |
 | George Turner - Islands of the Pacific - 1884 - 484 pages
...been Irons time immemorial religiously preserved and worshipped. This god resembles in ap. ¿rance a thick roll of home.spun flannel, which arises from...that material to it whenever its aid is sought; this is sewn on by an old woman, its priestess, whose peculiar care it is. Of the early history of this... | |
 | George Laurence Gomme - Ethnology - 1892 - 236 pages
...Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot., xvii, 191. and is called in the Irish Neevougi. In appearance it resembles a thick roll of homespun flannel, which arises from...that material to it whenever its aid is sought. This is sewed on by an old woman, its priestess, whose peculiar care it is. Its power is believed to be... | |
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