 | Literature, Modern - 1806 - 550 pages
...doubtless so «¡led, because worshipped by the Canaanites |. In the Island of Birray there is one stone, about seven feet high, and when the inhabitants come near it, they tak_e a religious turn round, according to the ancient Drgid custom §. " It is not an easy task to... | |
 | Society of Antiquaries of London - Archaeology - 1807 - 542 pages
...fo called becaufe worfhipped by the Canaanites. In the ifle of Barray there is a ftone about feven feet high, and when the inhabitants come near it,...religious turn round it, according to the ancient Druid cuftom [e]. Stones were alfo creeled as memorials of civil contracts ; thus when Jacob entered into... | |
 | John Britton - Architecture - 1807 - 268 pages
...wed themselves; but this custom is much more ancient than Christianity. Isle of Barray there is one stone, about seven feet high, and when the inhabitants come near it» they take a religious turn round, according to the ancient Druid custom.""* It is not an easy task to persuade the illiterate to relinquish... | |
 | John Pinkerton - Voyages and travels - 1809 - 1102 pages
...Chriftopher, at which the natives perform their devotion. There is a flonc fet up here, about feven feet high $ and when the inhabitants come near it, they take a religious turn round it. If a tenant chance to lofe his milk-cow-; by the feverity of the feafon, or any other misfortune ;... | |
 | Samuel Drew - Cornwall - 1824 - 766 pages
...there is one stone about seven feet high ; MONUMENT NEAR ST. COLUMB, SUPPOSED TO COMMEMORATE A VICTORY. and when the inhabitants come near it, they take a religious turn round, accordingto the ancient Druid custom.* In Cornwall, our crosses are almost innumerable, and some of... | |
 | John D'Alton - Boyle (Ireland : Barony) - 1845 - 360 pages
...centuries, even unto the seventh, as appears from the prohibitions of several councils." Martin(ft) suggests that there are still some signs of adoration...acreable contents of this parish are set down as 5.159A. 3n. 38p., whereof 301A. OR. 9p. are co(a) Munimenta Antiqua, vol. ic 2. (A) History of the Western... | |
 | Robert Stuart - Architecture - 1854 - 1272 pages
...bowing stone, and undoubtedly was so called, because worshipped by the Canaanites. In the isle of Barray there is a stone, about seven feet high ; and when...turn round it, according to the ancient Druid custom. It is not easy to persuade the illiterate to relinquish an ancient religious custom ; for in proportion... | |
 | Robert Lister Macneil - History - 1923 - 288 pages
...dedicated to St. Christopher, at which the natives perform their devotion. There is a stone set up there, about seven feet high, and when the inhabitants come near it, they take a religious turn round it. If a tenant chance to lose his milk cows by the severity of the season, or any other misfortune, in... | |
 | Aubrey Burl, Dr Aubrey Burl - History - 1993 - 316 pages
...ignorant of the Vulgar are guilty of 'em', adding that 'There is a Stone set up here, about seven foot high; and when the Inhabitants come near it, they take a religious Turn round it', to which the Cornish antiquarian, William Borlase appended the gloss, 'according to the ancient Druid... | |
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there is a stone about seven feet high, and, when the inhabitants come near it, they take a religious turn round it, according to the ancient Druid custom. 