 | Luke Howard - 1835 - 462 pages
...Killaraus to that of Ambrius, and delivers it to this brief effect. " The prophet Merlin, desirous of having a parcel of stones, which grew in an odd sort of form, in a backside belonging to an old woman in Ireland, transported from thence to one of the hills of Salisbury... | |
 | Joseph Robertson - Table-talk - 1840 - 286 pages
...belief maintains in ENGLAND. The story is thus told by a local writer : " The prophet Merlin, desirous of having a parcel of stones which grew in an odd sort of form in a bac.k-yard belonging to an old woman in Ireland, transported thence to Salisbury Plain, employed the... | |
 | Joseph Robertson - Table-talk - 1840 - 290 pages
...belief maintains in ENGLAND. The story is thus told by a local writer: " The prophet Merlin, desirous of having a parcel of stones which grew in an odd sort of form in a back-yard belonging to an old woman in Ireland, transported, thence to Salisbury Plain, employed the... | |
 | 1847 - 854 pages
...capital example of these fireside tales. To quote a local reporter : — ' The prophet Merlin, desirous of having a parcel of stones which grew in an odd sort of form in a back-yard belonging to an old woman in Ireland, transported thence to Salisbury Plain, employed the... | |
 | Edward Herbert Stone - England - 1924 - 244 pages
...the time of John Wood (1747), by whom it is related as follows : — The Prophet, Merlin, desirous of having a Parcel of Stones which grew in an odd Sort of Form in a Backside belonging to an old Woman in Ireland, transported from thence to one of the Hills of Salisbury... | |
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Salisbury Plain, employed the Devil upon the Work ; who the Night after, dressing himself like a Gentleman, and taking a large Bag of Money in his hand, presented himself before the good Woman as She was sitting... 