Thaumaturgia, Or, Elucidations of the MarvellousE. Churton, 1835 - 362 páginas |
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... Obeah , or negro witchcraft - charms- their knowledge of vegetable poison - secret poison- ing . CHAPTER XIX . On the origin and superstitious influence of rings . CHAPTER XX . . 300 Celestial influences - omens - climacterics ...
... Obeah , or negro witchcraft - charms- their knowledge of vegetable poison - secret poison- ing . CHAPTER XIX . On the origin and superstitious influence of rings . CHAPTER XX . . 300 Celestial influences - omens - climacterics ...
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... , without daring to ask him a reason for any part of his conduct . Implicit faith , every where else the object of ridicule , is still sacred here . " : CHAPTER XVIII . THE PRATICE OF OBEAH , OR NEGRO ELUCIDATIONS OF THE MARVELLOUS . 277.
... , without daring to ask him a reason for any part of his conduct . Implicit faith , every where else the object of ridicule , is still sacred here . " : CHAPTER XVIII . THE PRATICE OF OBEAH , OR NEGRO ELUCIDATIONS OF THE MARVELLOUS . 277.
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Oxonian. CHAPTER XVIII . THE PRATICE OF OBEAH , OR NEGRO WITCHCRAFT- CHARMS THEIR KNOWLEDGE OF VEGETABLE POI- SONS - SECRET POISONING . OBEAH , a pretended sort of witchcraft , arising from a superstitious credulity , prevailing among ...
Oxonian. CHAPTER XVIII . THE PRATICE OF OBEAH , OR NEGRO WITCHCRAFT- CHARMS THEIR KNOWLEDGE OF VEGETABLE POI- SONS - SECRET POISONING . OBEAH , a pretended sort of witchcraft , arising from a superstitious credulity , prevailing among ...
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... OBEAH can have little effect , unless a negro is conscious that it is practised upon him , or thinks so ; t for , as the whole evil consists in the terrors * Various etymologies have been suggested for the word obi . Mr. Long , in a ...
... OBEAH can have little effect , unless a negro is conscious that it is practised upon him , or thinks so ; t for , as the whole evil consists in the terrors * Various etymologies have been suggested for the word obi . Mr. Long , in a ...
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... OBEAH man or woman ( for it is practised by both sexes ) is a very dangerous person on a plantation ; and the practice of it is made felony by law , punishable with death where poison has been administered , and with transportation ...
... OBEAH man or woman ( for it is practised by both sexes ) is a very dangerous person on a plantation ; and the practice of it is made felony by law , punishable with death where poison has been administered , and with transportation ...
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Página 161 - True, I talk of dreams ; Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the air, And more inconstant than the wind, who wooes Even now the frozen bosom of the north, And, being anger'd, puffs away from thence, Turning his face to the dew-dropping south.
Página 107 - ... we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon and the stars : as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves and treachers, by spherical predominance ; drunkards, liars and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence ; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on...
Página 159 - Prick'd from the lazy finger of a maid. Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut , Made by the joiner squirrel , or old grub , Time out of mind the fairies' coach-makers. And in this state she gallops night by night Through lovers' brains, and then they dream of love: On courtiers' knees, that dream on court'sies straight: O'er lawyers' fingers , who straight dream on fees : O'er ladies...
Página 107 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune — often the surfeit of our own behaviour — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon and the stars...
Página 163 - The same idea, when it again recurs without the operation of the like object on the external sensory, is remembrance ; if it be sought after by the mind, and with pain and endeavour found and brought again in view, it is recollection; if it be held there long under attentive consideration, it is contemplation.
Página 160 - Tickling a parson's nose as a' lies asleep: Then dreams he of another benefice! Sometimes she driveth o'er a soldier's neck, And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats, Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades, Of healths five fathom deep; and then anon Drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes; And, being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two, And sleeps again.
Página 162 - All what we affirm or what deny, and call Our knowledge or opinion; then retires Into her private cell. When nature rests Oft in her absence mimic Fancy wakes To imitate her; but misjoining shapes, Wild work produces oft, and most in dreams; 111 matching words and deeds long past or late.
Página 145 - But with more lucky hit than those That use to make the stars depose, Like Knights o
Página 307 - Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years. And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years...
Página 159 - She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...