Folklore, Volumen19Joseph Jacobs, Alfred Trübner Nutt, Arthur Robinson Wright, William Crooke Folklore Society, 1908 Most vols. for 1890- contain list of members of the Folk-lore Society. |
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... horse , or the fairy into a toad . Many things that appear repulsive are not to be shunned on that score . The hideous form is often there to test the strength of love and the reality of attachment to duty . It is the touchstone of ...
... horse , or the fairy into a toad . Many things that appear repulsive are not to be shunned on that score . The hideous form is often there to test the strength of love and the reality of attachment to duty . It is the touchstone of ...
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... horse , a rusty sword , a lean cow , a cat , or some other such object rejected by his brothers in haughty dis- dain , for the choice of which he is ridiculed and laughed at . In some instances it is the father who leaves to his ...
... horse , a rusty sword , a lean cow , a cat , or some other such object rejected by his brothers in haughty dis- dain , for the choice of which he is ridiculed and laughed at . In some instances it is the father who leaves to his ...
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... horse and the magic carpet . We wish to spy out the mystery of heaven and see down the depth of the sea as they did when the man of long sight searched for the hidden beauty among the places above the skies or at the bottom of the sea ...
... horse and the magic carpet . We wish to spy out the mystery of heaven and see down the depth of the sea as they did when the man of long sight searched for the hidden beauty among the places above the skies or at the bottom of the sea ...
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... horse for him ; aye , and shoe him to rights too ! " As might have been expected , the smith was called up at midnight by a traveller whose horse had cast a shoe , and hurried down to open the doors of the smithy , only to realize that ...
... horse for him ; aye , and shoe him to rights too ! " As might have been expected , the smith was called up at midnight by a traveller whose horse had cast a shoe , and hurried down to open the doors of the smithy , only to realize that ...
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... horses at that corner than anywhere else . Within memory , too , a witch is said to have lived close by , who had an uncanny power of sending her clients home . My informant , an old man of 75 , stated that in his father's time certain ...
... horses at that corner than anywhere else . Within memory , too , a witch is said to have lived close by , who had an uncanny power of sending her clients home . My informant , an old man of 75 , stated that in his father's time certain ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Folklore, Volumen9 Joseph Jacobs,Alfred Trübner Nutt,Arthur Robinson Wright,William Crooke Vista completa - 1898 |
Folklore, Volumen7 Joseph Jacobs,Alfred Trübner Nutt,Arthur Robinson Wright,William Crooke Vista completa - 1896 |
Folklore, Volumen12 Joseph Jacobs,Alfred Trübner Nutt,Arthur Robinson Wright,William Crooke Vista completa - 1901 |
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Página 66 - Out of her brest there sprang a rose, And out of his a briar. They grew till they grew unto the church top, And then they could grow no higher ; And there they tyed in a true lovers knot, Which made all the people admire.
Página 156 - Hee carieth to to loab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah. And he wrote in the ^^t"" letter, saying, Set yee Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battel, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die.
Página 179 - Verily she hath twelve feet all dangling down, and six necks exceeding long, and on each a hideous head, and therein three rows of teeth set thick and close, full of black death.
Página 3 - IN THE CHAIR. THE Minutes of the last Annual Meeting were read and confirmed. The...
Página 175 - Laestrygons, where herdsman hails herdsman as he drives in his flock, and the other who drives forth answers the call. There might a sleepless man have earned a double wage, the one as neat-herd, the other shepherding white flocks : so near are the outgoings of the night and of the day.
Página 4 - Clodd, a hearty vote of thanks was accorded to the President for his address ; and a vote of thanks was also accorded to the outgoing members of Council, Mr.
Página 375 - KOREAN GAMES: WITH NOTES ON THE CORRESPONDING GAMES OF CHINA AND JAPAN, Stewart Culin.
Página xviii - This will entitle Members to receive the publications of the Society for such year. Members having joined during the present year, and desirous of obtaining the publications of the Society already issued, several of which are becoming scarce, may do so by paying the subscriptions for the back years. Post-office orders and cheques should be sent to the Secretary. All communications intended for reading at an evening meeting or for publication in Folk-Lore should be addressed to the Secretary, as above,...
Página 183 - These, ye must know, are they the blessed gods call the Rocks Wandering. By this way even winged things may never pass, nay, not even the cowering doves that bear ambrosia to Father Zeus, but the sheer rock evermore takes away one even of these, and the Father sends in another to make up the tale.
Página 198 - We are all lords' and ladies' sons born in our bower and hall, and you are nothing but a Jewess' child born in an ox's stall. If you're all lords' and ladies' sons born in your bower and hall, I'll make you believe in your latter end, I'm an angel above you all. So he made him a bridge of the beams of the sun and over the river danced he. The rich young lords chased after him and drowned they were all three.