 Of the early history of this idol no authentic information can be procured, but its power is believed to be immense ; they pray to it in time of sickness, it is invoked when a storm is desired to dash some hapless ship upon their coast, and again it is...  Ethnology in Folklore - Page 169by George Laurence Gomme - 1892 - 200 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Conger Pell - Anecdotes - 1857 - 436 pages
...woman, its priestess. Of the early history of this idol no authentic information can be procured, but its power is believed to be immense ; they pray to...dash some hapless ship upon their coast, and again it is solicited to calm the waves to admit of the islanders fishing or visiting the main land. —... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - Anecdotes - 1857 - 444 pages
...woman, its priestess. Of the carry history of this idol no authentic information can be procured, but its power is believed to be immense ; they pray to...dash some hapless ship upon their coast, and again it is solicited to calm the waves to admit of the islanders fishing or visiting the main land. —... | |
 | English literature - 1861 - 600 pages
...woman, its priestess. Of the early history of this idol no authentic information can be procured, but its power is believed to be immense : they pray to...dash some hapless ship upon their coast, and again it is solicited to calm the waves to admit of the islanders fishing or visiting the main land.' But... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1861 - 604 pages
...woman, its priestess. Of the early history of this idol no authentic information can be procured, but its power is believed to be immense : they pray to...dash some hapless ship upon their coast, and again it is solicited to calm the waves to admit of the islanders fishing or visiting the main land.' But... | |
 | John Kitto - 1867 - 482 pages
...preserved and worshipped. Of the early history of this idol no authentic information can be procured, but its power is believed to be immense : they pray to...dash some hapless ship upon their coast ; and, again, it is solicited to calm the waves to admit of the islanders fishing or visiting the mainland.' This... | |
 | Constance Frederica Gordon Cumming - Islands of the Pacific - 1882 - 444 pages
...peculiar care it is. Of the early history of this idol no authentic information can be procured, but its power is believed to be immense. They pray to...invoked when a storm is desired to dash some hapless slap upon their coast ; and again, the exercise of its power is solieited in calming the angry waves... | |
 | Gary R. Varner - Nature - 2004 - 234 pages
...woman, its priestess. Of the early history of this idol no authentic information can be procured, but its power is believed to be immense; they pray to...dash some hapless ship upon their coast, and again it is solicited to calm the waves to admit of the islanders fishing or visiting the main land. 56 Can... | |
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