 ... cock, and sprinkle the threshold with the blood, and do the same in the four corners of the house, and this ceremonious performance is done to exclude every kind of evil spirit...  Ethnology in Folklore - Page 163by George Laurence Gomme - 1892 - 200 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Shaw Mason - Ireland - 1819 - 820 pages
...is one of the greatest saints in their calendar,) on the llth of November, every family of a village kills an animal of some kind or other ; those who are rich kill a cow or a sheep, others a goose or a turkey ; while those who are poor, aud cannot procure an animal of greater... | |
 | Isaac Weld - Agriculture - 1832 - 960 pages
....calendar, the 1 1th day of November, every family (more particularly in the country part of the parish) kills an animal of some kind or other ; those who are rich a cow or sheep, others a goose or turkey ; while the still poorer, who cannot provide an animal of... | |
 | Jonathan Binns - Ireland - 1837 - 496 pages
...calendar, the llth day of November, every family (more particularly in the country part of the parish) kills an animal of some kind or other : those who are rich, a cow or sheep, others a goose or turkey ; while the still poorer, who cannot provide an animal of... | |
 | johnathan binns - 1837 - 496 pages
...calendar, the llth day of November, every family (more particularly in the country part of the parish) kills an animal of some kind or other : those who are rich, a cow or sheep, others a goose or turkey; while the still poorer, who cannot provide an animal of greater... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1906 - 692 pages
...reference to " heathen days " and the title of " sacrifice " ascribed to the killing of the lamb (p. 31). " At St. Peter's, Athlone, every family of a village...others a goose or turkey, while those who are poor kill л hen or cock; with the blood of the animal they sprinkle the threshold and also the four corners... | |
 | Antiquities - 1882 - 328 pages
...custom at St. Peter's, Athlone, which took place on St Martin's Day: — Every family of a village kills an animal of some kind or other ; those who...others a goose or turkey ; while those who are poor and cannot procure an animal of great value, kill a hen or cock, and sprinkle the threshold with the... | |
 | Antiquities - 1882 - 308 pages
...the custom at St. Peter's, Athlone, which tookplaceonSt.Martin's Day: — Every family of a village kills an animal of some kind or other ; those who...others a goose or turkey ; while those who are poor and cannot procure an animal of great value, kill a ben or cock, and sprinkle the threshold with the... | |
 | Henry Clay Trumbull - Covenants - 1896 - 360 pages
...Ireland, it was said, early in this century : " On the i ith of November, every family of a village kills an animal of some kind or other; those who are rich kill a cow or sheep, others a goose or a turkey ; while those who are poor . . . kill a hen or a cock, and sprinkle the threshold with the... | |
 | Manners and customs - 1897 - 1030 pages
...family of a village.." says Mason, in his "Statistical Account of Ireland" (1819, vol. iii. p. 75), "kills an animal of some kind or other: those who are rich kill a cow or a sheep, others a goose or a turkey ; while those who are poor and cannot procure an animal of greater... | |
 | Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer - Folklore - 1900 - 582 pages
...Athlone, every family of a village, says Mason, in his Stat. Ace. of Ireland (1819, vol. iii. p. 75), kills an animal of some kind or other : those who are rich kill a cow or a sheep, others a goose or a turkey; while those who are poor and cannot procure an animal of greater... | |
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