Popular Tales of the West Highlands, Volume 2Edmonston and Douglas, 1860 - 478 pages |
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Autres éditions - Tout afficher
Popular Tales of the West Highlands: Orally Collected, Volume 2 John Francis Campbell Affichage du livre entier - 1860 |
Popular Tales of the West Highlands: Orally Collected, Volume 2 John Francis Campbell Affichage du livre entier - 1890 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
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Fréquemment cités
Page 409 - Little Nanny Etticoat, In a white petticoat, And a red nose; The longer she stands, The shorter she grows.
Page 193 - To the cave's mouth he roll'd, and closed the gate (Scarce twenty four-wheel'd cars, compact and strong, The massy load could bear, or roll along). He next betakes him to his evening cares, And, sitting down, to milk his flocks prepares ; Of half their udders eases first the dams, Then to the mother's teat...
Page 41 - M'Donald, tenant, and others, Barra. July 1859. HPHEEE came a woman of peace (a fairy) the way of -*- the house of a man in the island of Pabaidh, and she had the hunger of motherhood on her. He gave her food, and that went well with her. She staid that night. When she went away, she said to him, " I am making a desire that none of the people of this island may go in childbed after this.
Page 477 - In this instance, as it seems to me> "truth" might well say, "keep me from my friends." LVII. THE TAIL. Told about thirty years ago by John Campbell, piper to his pupil, JF Campbell. rPHERE was a shepherd once who went out to the -*- hill to look after his sheep. It was misty and cold, and he had much trouble to find them. At last he had them all but one ; and after much searching he found that one too in a peat hag half drowned; so he took off his plaid, and bent down and took hold of the sheep's...
Page 43 - Loose the Black, and slip the Fierce. The two dogs were let loose ; and she was not long away when she heard the clatter of the dogs coming. She kept the remnant that was in the kettle, so that if she could get it with her, well, and if the dogs should come that she might throw it at them. She perceived the dogs coming. She put her hand in the kettle. She took the board out of it, and she threw at them a quarter of what was in it. They noticed it there for a while. She perceived them again, and she...
Page 328 - I am setting it as crosses, and as spells, and as the decay of the year on thee; that thou be not without a pool in thy shoe, and that thou be wet, cold, and soiled, until thou gettest for me the bird from which that feather came." And he said to his muime, "I am setting it as crosses and as spells, and as the decay of the year on thee; that thou be standing with the one foot on the great house, and the other foot on the castle; and that thy face be to the tempest whatever wind blows, until I return...
Page 287 - ... and she saw all that went on, and when she awoke she went home and told it to her mother, and the henwife told it to the queen, and when the queen understood how the girl was getting meat, nothing at all would serve her but that the sheep should be killed. The sheep came to the queen's daughter and said to her— " They are going to kill me, but steal thou my skin and gather my bones and roll them in my skin, and I will come alive again, and I will come to thee again.
Page 359 - ... characters. Serpents were probably held in abhorrence, as they have been by other races, but the serpent gave wisdom, and is very mythical. Old Macdonald, travelling tinker, told me a long story, of which one scene represented an incantation more vividly to me than anything I have ever read or heard. " There was a king and a knight, as there was and will be, and as grows the fir tree, some of it crooked and some of it straight, and he was a king of Eirinn," said the old tinker, and then came...
Page 193 - Friends, Noman kills me; Noman in the hour Of sleep, oppresses me with fraudful power.' 'If no man hurt thee, but the hand divine Inflict disease, it fits thee to resign: To Jove or to thy father Neptune pray.
Page 31 - Shield now took, him into the palace, and she it was that was pleased to see him — -the knight's daughter. He stayed a while with them, and after that he thought that he would go home to his own kingdom ; and when he was going past a great palace that was there he saw twelve men playing at shinny over against the palace. He thought he would go for a while and play shinny with them ; but they were not long playing shinny when they fell out, and the weakest of them caught him and he shook him as...