This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ...out of a dead hone's head ' in Burcird, Waldis 4, 2, mean enchanted? indisturbatis equus transibat, signum habuere prosperitatis, et securi pergebant; sin autem, quiescebant.'--Here the holy steed is led across nine spears lying a cubit apart from one another, in Dietmar's older narrative over the points of two crossed ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ...out of a dead hone's head ' in Burcird, Waldis 4, 2, mean enchanted? indisturbatis equus transibat, signum habuere prosperitatis, et securi pergebant; sin autem, quiescebant.'--Here the holy steed is led across nine spears lying a cubit apart from one another, in Dietmar's older narrative over the points of two crossed spears; of course the Luitizers may have had a different method from the Pomeranians. Saxo Gram. p. 321 gives yet a third account of the matter respecting the Slavs of Riigen: 'Praeterea peculiarem albi coloris eguum titulo possidebat (numen), cujas jubae aut caudae pilos convellere nefarium ducebatur. Hunc soli sacerdoti pascendi insidendique jus erat, ne divini animalis usus quo frequentior hoc vilior haberetur. In hoc equo, opinione Rugiae, Svantovitus (id simulacro vocabulum erat) adversus sacrorum suorum hostes bella gerere credebatur. Cujus rei praecipuum argumentum exstabat, quod is nocturno tempore stabulo insistens adeo plerumque mane sudore ac luto respersus videbatur,1 tanquam ab exercitatione veniendo magnorum itinerum spacia percurrisset. Auspicia quoque per eundem equum hujusmodi sumebantur. Cum bellum adversum aliquam provinciam suscipi placuisset, ante fanum triplex hastarum ordo ministrorum opera disponi solebat, in quorum quolibet binae e traverso junctae conversis in terram cuspidibus figebantur, aequali spaciorum magnitudine ordines disparante. Ad quos equus ductandae expeditionis tempore, solenni precatione praemissa, a sacerdote e vestibulo cum loramentis productus, si propositos ordines ante deztro quam laevo pede transcenderet, faustum gerendi belli omen accipiebatur. Sin laevum vel semel dextro praetulisset, petendae provinciae propositum mutabatur.'--This description is still more exact: the sacred horse, here attrib...
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