 | Mary Elizabeth Braddon - 1878 - 542 páginas
...once offered in this country as well as in the East, although they now pass from the act of sacrifice, and only compel the devoted person to leap three times through the flames, with which act the ceremonies of this festival are closed.' While it is clear that some of these rites are peculiarly... | |
 | 1879 - 398 páginas
...sacrifices having been once offered in this country as well as in the East, although they now omit the act of sacrificing, and only compel the devoted...through the flames ; with which the ceremonies of the festival are closed. Beltane signifies the fire of Baal; Baal, or Ball, is the only word in Gaelic... | |
 | John Jamieson - 1879 - 692 páginas
...doubt of these inhuman sacrifices having been onto offered in this country, as well as in the cast, although they now pass from the act of sacrificing,...the devoted person to leap three times through the names ; with which the ceremonies of this festival are closed. "Bal-ttin signifies the fire of Baal.... | |
 | William Marshall - 1880 - 470 páginas
...is little doubt of these inhuman sacrifices having been once offered in this country, as well as in the East, although they now pass from the act of sacrificing, and only compel the det'otfd person to leap three times through the flames, with which the ceremonies of the festival are... | |
 | Robert Macgregor - 1881 - 226 páginas
...once offered in this country as well as in the East, although they now pass from the act of sacrifice, and only compel the devoted person to leap three times through the flames, with which act the ceremonies of this festival are closed." While it is clear that some of these rites are peculiarly... | |
 | John Collett (poet.) - 1883 - 236 páginas
...is little doubt of these inhuman sacrifices having been once offered in this country, as well as in the East, although they now pass from the act of sacrificing,...which the ceremonies of this festival are closed.' — Ibid. vol. xi. p. 261. Mr. Pennant gives a similar account, with the addition of some other circumstances.... | |
 | Alexander Mackenzie, Alexander Macgregor, Alexander Macbain - 1884 - 604 páginas
...is little doubt of these inhuman sacrifices having been once offered in this country, as well as in the East, although they now pass from the act of sacrificing,...through the flames ; with which the ceremonies of the festival are closed." To this sensible account and its inferences, all but the reference to Baal,... | |
 | Alexander Mackenzie - 1884 - 776 páginas
...is little doubt of these inhuman sacrifices having been once offered in this country, as well as in the East, although they now pass from the act of sacrificing,...through the flames ; with which the ceremonies of the festival are closed." To this sensible account and its inferences, all but the reference to Baal,... | |
 | Henry William J. Senior - 1885 - 208 páginas
...is little doubt of these inhuman sacrifices having once been offered in this country as well as in the east, although they now pass from the act of sacrificing,...with which the ceremonies of this festival are closed " (Ibid. vol. xi., p. 621). " In the worship of Baal, as practised by the idolatrous Israelites in... | |
 | 1890 - 786 páginas
...is little doubt of these inhuman sacrifices having been once offered in this country, as well as in the east, although they now pass from the act of sacrificing,...through the flames ; with which the ceremonies of ihis festival are closed. The other custom is, that on All-Saint* Kven they ?.et up bonfires in c very... | |
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Whoever draws the black bit is the devoted person who is to be sacrificed to Baal* whose favour they mean to implore, in rendering the year productive of the sustenance of man and beast. There is little doubt of these inhuman sacrifices having been once... 
