10 BÜCHER, DIE MIT «SPAEWIVES» IM ZUSAMMENHANG STEHEN
Entdecke den Gebrauch von
spaewives in der folgenden bibliographischen Auswahl. Bücher, die mit
spaewives im Zusammenhang stehen und kurze Auszüge derselben, um seinen Gebrauch in der Literatur kontextbezogen darzustellen.
1
The Celtic and Scandinavian Religions
Wolves are called the hounds of the Norns. In the Nornagesfs Saga an
interesting picture is given of women, volvur or spdkonur who foretell fates, and
this suggests that actual spaewives or soothsaying women may have helped to
give ...
2
Wild Magic: The Godwars
What, I cannot say—only that she becomes a member of your quest, and that I
believe it must fail without her.” Katya nodded. Bracht said, “Three and three and
three, wizard. Twice now spaewives have prophesied three. How so, if we
become ...
3
Thebes, Its Tombs and Their Tenants, Ancient and Present: ...
Our own folklore recognises the efficacy of knotted cords ; and at no distant date
spaewives, in the north of Scotland, confided them to their clients, as safeguards
against harm, and especially to fishermen as guarantees of success. Indeed, in ...
Alexander Henry Rhind, 1862
4
Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine
But there are spaewives upon the turf ; and they compete as emulously for
custom as the priestesses of Delphi and Dodona. Let us give a few specimens
from a single number of Bell. The first advertiser is cautious, and does not commit
himself ...
She had had nine sisters, and all were spaewives, but she alone survived. It was
her custom in winter, to travel round to the different Gilds, and in particular was
she welcomed by those who wished to know something of their fate, or of the ...
Nicholas Patrick Wiseman, 1849
6
Adeline; or, Mysteries, romance, and realities of Jewish life
... Barrosh, dreams, omens, spaewives, cantrips, tatie-bogles, and the squadrons
of elfin chivalry ; in fairies, brownies, kelpies, Boo-men, wraiths, spells, and
Holloway's pills ; in the divination of fortunes by means of the sediment of a
teacup, ...
Osborn W Trenery Heighway, 1854
First came priests and spaewives, blowing on goldbound hornsand waving green
branchesof peace; thena troupe ofacrobats and jugglers, dressed inthe motley
Usk sorecently disdained; then a cart drawn by lumbering oxen withthe goinggifts
...
"Surrounded by trouble," as the spaewives said when they told your cards: that's
what he was. Monday would soon be over and there was no sign that Robert
Tisdall was in the world of men. The first low howl had come from the Clarion that
...
9
From Edinburgh to the Antarctic: An Artist's Notes and ...
... know what sort of weather was before us. Surely the money of the spaewives
never sent mariners worse Our first night at sea was quiet. The harvest moon.
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William Gordon Burn Murdoch, 2012
Jim Hewitson. called in to arbitrate in civil disputes. As far as we know, Pitcairn
did not consult the spaewives again, which is just as well because his brief
American adventure was almost at an end. Within a few weeks he had been
killed at the ...
