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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Henry Milner Rideout, 2011
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Fern-
seed and Elephants: And Other Essays on Christianity
This collection of seven essays show C.S. Lewis at his most vigorous, defending his vision of a full-blooded, orthodox Christianity in his matchless prose style.
Clive Staples Lewis, Walter Hooper, 1998
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion
In Brittany treasure-seekers gather fern-seed at midnight on Midsummer Eve, and
keep it till Palm Sunday of the following year; then they strew the seed on the
ground where they think a treasure is concealed. Tyrolesc peasants imagine that
...
James George Frazer, 2009
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The Golden Bough (Abridged): A Study in Magic and Religion
And in the Tryol and Bohemia if you place fern-seed among money, the money
will never decrease, however much of it you spend. Sometimes the fern-seed is
supposed to bloom on Christmas night, and whoever catches it will become very
...
Sir James George Frazer, 2004
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Observations on Popular Antiquities: Chiefly Illustrating ...
of witchcraft who gather Fern-seed on this night : " Vel si reperiantur in nocte S.
Joannis eolligendo grana herbae Failicis, vulgo He- lecho, qua Magi ad maleficia
sua utuntur." A respectable countryman at Heston, in Middlesex, informed me in ...
John Brand, Sir Henry Ellis, 1841
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Observations on Popular Antiquities Chiefly Illustrating the ...
Fern-seed is looked on as having great magical powers, and must be gathered
on Midsummer Eve. A person who went to gather it reported that the Spirits
whisked by his ears, and sometimes struck his hat and other parts of his body,
and, ...
A respectable countryman at Heston, in Middlesex, informed me in June, 1793,
that, when he was a young man, he was often present at the ceremony of
catching the Fern- seed at midnight on the eve of St. John Baptist. The attempt,
he said, ...
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Sun Lore of All Ages: A Collection of Myths and Legends ...
are led to regard the fiery aspect of the fern seed as primary, and its golden
aspect as secondary and derivative. Fern seed, in fact, would seem to be an
emanation of the sun's fire at the two turning- points of its course,- the summer
and winter ...
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The plays of William Shakespeare: With the corrections and ...
Nay, by my faith; I think you are more beholden to the night, than to fern-seed, for
your walking invisible. Gads. Give me thy hand: thou shalt have a share in our
purchase,8 as I am a true man. fly to for protection and defence against the laws.
William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, 1806
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The Folk-lore of Plants
At last he became aware that he was invisible, and, remembering how he had
walked in the meadow on the preceding evening, it struck him that he might
possibly have fern-seed in his shoes. So he took them off, and as he shook them
the ...
T. F. Thiselton-Dyer, 1968
