 | George Johnston - 1829 - 636 páginas
...it from evil ; for the dairymaid will not forget to drive them to the shealings or summer pastures with a rod of the Rowan-tree, which she carefully...summer-house, and drives them home again with the same." This superstitious belief prevailed also in Northumberland, but is now probably extinct — In the... | |
 | George Johnston - 1829 - 288 páginas
...will not forget to drive them to the shealings or summer pastures with a rod of the 1 1 o wan-tree, which she carefully lays up over the door of the sheal-boothy,...summer-house, and drives them home again with the same." This superstitious belief prevailed also in Northumberland, but is now probably extinct — In the... | |
 | John Graham Dalyell - 1834 - 722 páginas
...maid will not forget to drive them to the shealing or summer pastures, with a rod of the rowan tree, which she carefully lays up over the door of the sheal-boothy, or summer house, and drives them home again with the same.":}: In England it was held also a preservative... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1838 - 786 páginas
...dairy-maid will not forget to drive them to the shealings, or summer pastures, with a rod of the rowan tree, which she carefully lays up over the door of the sheal-boothy,...morning cause the sheep and lambs to pass through it." " This superstitious belief," Dr. Johnson, in his Flora of Berwick upon Tivced, remarks, " prevailed... | |
 | 1844 - 878 páginas
...evil j for the dairymaid will not forget to drive them to the shealings, or to the summer pastures, with. a rod of the rowan-tree, which she carefully...again with the same. In Strathspey, they make on the first of May a hoop with the wood of this tree, and in the evening and morning cause the sheep and... | |
 | 1844 - 858 páginas
...sheal-boothy, or summer-house, and drives them home again with the same. In Strathspey, they make on the first of May a hoop with the wood of this tree, and in the...morning cause the sheep and lambs to pass through it' This superstitious belief was recently, or is still, prevalent in Wales and the north of England ;... | |
 | Walter Keating Kelly - 1863 - 346 páginas
...will not forget to drive the cattle to the shealing or summer pastures with a rod of the rowan tree, which she carefully lays up over the door of the sheal-boothy or summer house, and drives them home again with the same."-f"At Modrufell, on the north coast of Iceland,... | |
 | Inverness Gaelic Society - 1878 - 322 páginas
...summer pastures with a rod of this tree, which she carefully lays up over the door of the sheal bothy, and drives them home again with the same. In Strathspey they make, for the same purpose, on the first day of May, a hoop of rowan wood, and in the morning and evening... | |
 | Alexander Mackenzie, Alexander Macgregor, Alexander Macbain - 1879 - 492 páginas
...pastures with a rod of this tree, which she carefully lays up over the door of the " sheal bothy," and drives them home again with the same. In Strathspey they make, for the same purpose, on the first day of May, a hoop of rowan wood, and in the morning and evening... | |
 | Charles Alexander Johns - 1892 - 458 páginas
...from evil; for the dairy-maid will not forget to drive them from the shealings, or summer pastures, with a rod of the Rowantree, which she carefully lays...again with the same. In Strathspey, they make, on Ihe 1st of May, a hoop with the wood of this tree, and in the evening and morning cause the sheep and... | |
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... the shealings, or summer pastures, with a rod of the Rowantree, which she carefully lays up over the door of the sheal-boothy or summer-house, and drives them home again with the same. 
