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With them indeed these bonfires had an especial mean- ing , or perhaps I should rather say they endeavoured to make of the custom a Christian type and symbol , in order to conceal its Pagan origin . For the existence of To quote from ...
With them indeed these bonfires had an especial mean- ing , or perhaps I should rather say they endeavoured to make of the custom a Christian type and symbol , in order to conceal its Pagan origin . For the existence of To quote from ...
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But I cannot agree with him that the custom , which prevailed of dancing about the fires and leaping over them was in early times * the The l'autre femelle ; que leur point de réunion s'apelloit Hercule ...
But I cannot agree with him that the custom , which prevailed of dancing about the fires and leaping over them was in early times * the The l'autre femelle ; que leur point de réunion s'apelloit Hercule ...
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Still less can I agree with Moresin , * that this custom is a relic of the ordeal , according to which he who passed safely through the flames was held to be innocent ; for the bon- fires are a much more ancient observance than the ...
Still less can I agree with Moresin , * that this custom is a relic of the ordeal , according to which he who passed safely through the flames was held to be innocent ; for the bon- fires are a much more ancient observance than the ...
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They blazed equally in India and Egypt , in the north and amongst the Druids , from the last of whom the custom was in all probability more immediately derived to us . In Cornwall the day was anciently called Goluan , a word ...
They blazed equally in India and Egypt , in the north and amongst the Druids , from the last of whom the custom was in all probability more immediately derived to us . In Cornwall the day was anciently called Goluan , a word ...
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C This pleasing picture is in a great measure confirmed by other writers , and even by one , who speaks of the custom only incidentally , and in illustration of his doc- trines . ' Seie to me , " says Bishop Pecock , † “ good sire ...
C This pleasing picture is in a great measure confirmed by other writers , and even by one , who speaks of the custom only incidentally , and in illustration of his doc- trines . ' Seie to me , " says Bishop Pecock , † “ good sire ...
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