 | 1828 - 454 pages
...walking three times round the person who it the object of the ceremony, taking care to moveaccording to the course of the sun. At once, however, she stopped short, and exclaimed, in a voice of alarmand horror, " Grandson of my father, there is blood on your hand." "Hush, for God's sake, aunt,"... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1827 - 572 pages
...consists, as is well known, in the person who makes -the deasil, walking three times round ths persetv who is the object of the ceremony, taking care to...of my father, there is blood on your hand." " Hush, aunt," said Robin Oig; " you will bring more trouble on yourself with this Taishataragh (second sight)... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1827 - 394 pages
...Druidical mythology. It consists, as is well known, in the person who makes the deasil, walking three times round the person who is the object of the ceremony,...At once, however, she stopped short, and exclaimed, i» a voice of alarm and horror, " Grandson of my father, there is blood on your hand." " Hush, for... | |
 | Walter Scott - English literature - 1833 - 870 pages
...Druidical mythology. It consists, as is well known, in the person who makes the deasil walking three times round the person who is the object of the ceremony,...Oig; " you will bring more trouble on yourself with thu Taishataragh" (second sight) " than you will be able to get out of for many a day. The old woman... | |
 | Walter Scott - Historical fiction, Scottish - 1846 - 620 pages
...Druidical mythology. It consists, as is well known, in the person who makes the deasil walking three times round the person who is the object of the ceremony,...trouble on yourself with this Taishataragh" (second sight) " than you will be able to get out of for many a day." The old woman only repeated, with a ghastly... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1846 - 710 pages
...Druidical mythology. It consists, as is well known, in the person who makes the deasil walking three times round the person who is the object of the ceremony,...trouble on yourself with this Taishataragh" (second sight) "than you will be able to get out of for many a day." The old woman only repeated, with a ghastly... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1845 - 524 pages
...Druidical mythology. It consists, as is well known, in the person who makes the deasil, walking three times round the person who is the object of the ceremony,...you will bring more trouble on yourself with this Taishataragli (second sight) than you will be able to get out of for many a day." The old woman only... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1849 - 628 pages
...consists, as is well known, in the person who makes the t/frtW/ walking three times round the person who ie ue ea@T * b!ood on your hand." "Hush, for God's sake, aunt," said Robin Oi, " you will bring more trouble on... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1851 - 478 pages
...Druidical mythology. It consists, as is well known, in the person who makes the deasil walking three times round the person who is the object of the ceremony,...trouble on yourself with this Taishataragh " (second sight) " than you will be able to get out of for many a day." The old woman only repeated, with a ghastly... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1854 - 572 pages
...Druidical mythology. It consists, as is well known, in the person who makes the detail walkmg three times round the person who is the object of the ceremony,...exclaimed, in a voice of alarm and horror, " Grandson or my father, there is blood on your hand." " Hush, for God's sake, aunt," said Rohin Oig ; " you will... | |
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... her humour. In the meantime she traced around him, with wavering steps, the propitiation, which some have thought has been derived from the Druidical mythology. It consists, as is well known, in the person who makes the deasil walking three times... 
