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It was called Weydmonath , from the German weiden , to pas- ture ; † Medemonath ; Midsumormonath ; Braeckmonath , or Brachmonat , i . e . breaking the soil , from the Saxon bræcan ; Solstitialis ; Woedmoneth , i . e . weed - month ...
It was called Weydmonath , from the German weiden , to pas- ture ; † Medemonath ; Midsumormonath ; Braeckmonath , or Brachmonat , i . e . breaking the soil , from the Saxon bræcan ; Solstitialis ; Woedmoneth , i . e . weed - month ...
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The twenty - first of this month is the estival or summer solstice , so called because the sun , which has now entered the first degree of Cancer , and is at its greatest distance from the equator , appears to stand still .
The twenty - first of this month is the estival or summer solstice , so called because the sun , which has now entered the first degree of Cancer , and is at its greatest distance from the equator , appears to stand still .
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head and tail of the dragon , and the caduceus of Mercury is composed of two dragons strangled at the middle , the one male , the other female ; the point of union was called Hercules , and Mercury was the inventor of astro- nomy .
head and tail of the dragon , and the caduceus of Mercury is composed of two dragons strangled at the middle , the one male , the other female ; the point of union was called Hercules , and Mercury was the inventor of astro- nomy .
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In Cornwall the day was anciently called Goluan , a word , as Borlase tells us , expressive both of light and joy , * while in other parts of the west they had the name of Blessing Fires , a tole- rably plain hint of their religious ...
In Cornwall the day was anciently called Goluan , a word , as Borlase tells us , expressive both of light and joy , * while in other parts of the west they had the name of Blessing Fires , a tole- rably plain hint of their religious ...
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Even the snakes in Wales , Cornwall , and throughout all Scotland , celebrate this particular season by meeting together and perform a sort of magical rite after their own fashion , if it should not rather be called a species of glass ...
Even the snakes in Wales , Cornwall , and throughout all Scotland , celebrate this particular season by meeting together and perform a sort of magical rite after their own fashion , if it should not rather be called a species of glass ...
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| Заглавие | New Curiosities of Literature & Book of the Months, Том 2 New Curiosities of Literature & Book of the Months, George Soane |
| Автор | George Soane |
| Издател | Churton, 1847 |
| Оригиналът е от | National Library of the Netherlands |
| Цифровизирана на | 27 септ. 2012 |
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