This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 edition. Excerpt: ...infants, that have got no teeth, meet in the same room, one of them will die immediately after. If you praise their children or call them fat, they think you their worst enemy, and such children are certainly doomed to die. (Vide supra p. 7.) They firmly believe that if any o person is emaciated by ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 edition. Excerpt: ...infants, that have got no teeth, meet in the same room, one of them will die immediately after. If you praise their children or call them fat, they think you their worst enemy, and such children are certainly doomed to die. (Vide supra p. 7.) They firmly believe that if any o person is emaciated by sickness, or other accidental causes, that his or their heart is worn away; and they have a method of investigating whether it is so or not, or whether it shall be restored; which is this, they melt a piece of lead and throw it in cold water, and according to the shape it takes, so they form their judgment; if it takes the shape of a heart (their imaginations are pretty quick in helping out this and other kinds of augury both here and in Orkney), the person is not altogether gone, and he will recover, if otherwise, vice versa." Witches and Fairies, and their histories, are still very frequent in Schetland, but Brownies seem, within this century, to lose ground. Their Festivals are Christmas, Newyearsday, Uphaliday (the last day of Yule), Bonny Sunday, Peace Sunday (Easter), Johnsmass (J. Baptist's), Lambmass, Candlemass, Hallowmass, &c., and to each of these they annex particular ceremonies, mostly drawn from the Popish times. Monday, June 27th.--Waited on Sir John Mitchell at Sandhouso. The house small, but neatly furnished, with several pretty good family pictures. Here was shewn what in Schetland is called a thunderbolt, but by its shape proclaims itself designed for another purpose than to fright the world in general. It is a piece of a very close grained, hard stone, shaped into an axe-like form, well polished, having one end ground to an edge, the other rounded to a heel; seems to have served the same purpose as the axe of a halbard, and...
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