 When a person wished for a fair wind either to leave the island, or to bring home his absent friends, this part was opened with great solemnity, the stones carefully removed, and the well cleaned with a wooden dish or clam-shell. This being done, the...  Romanic Review - Stranica 359uredio/la - 1911Potpun prikaz - O ovoj knjizi
 | Robert Forsyth - 1808 - Broj stranica: 598
...the stones carefully removed, and the well cleaned with a wooden dish or clam-shell. This being done, the water was several times thrown in the, direction...being firmly believed, that were the place left open it would occasion a storm, which would overwhelm the whole island. The ceremony of cleaning the well,... | |
 | Robert Forsyth - 1808 - Broj stranica: 592
...the stones carefully removed, and the well cleaned with a wooden dish or clam-shell. This being done, the water was several times thrown in the direction...well was again carefully shut up, to prevent fatal consequence? ; it being firmly believed, that were the place left open it •would occasion a storm,... | |
 | Robert Forsyth - 1808 - Broj stranica: 594
...the stones carefully removed, and the well cleaned with a wooden dish or clam-shell. This being done, the water was several times thrown in the direction...certain form of words, which the person repeated every rime he threw the water. When the ceremony was over, the well was again carefully shut up, to prevent... | |
 | 1816 - Broj stranica: 740
...for wind wan to blow, and this aftion was accompanied with a certain form of words, which" the perfon repeated every time he threw the water. When the ceremony was over, the well w.is again carefully flint up to prevent fatal confeqne.nc.es ; it being firmly believed, that, were... | |
 | Alexander Mackenzie, Alexander Macgregor, Alexander Macbain - 1878 - Broj stranica: 504
...direction (or airt) from, which the wished for •wind was to blow, and this action accompanied with a certain form of •words, which the person repeated...being firmly believed, that were the place left open, it would occasion a storm, which would overwhelm thu whole island. This coremouy of cleaning the icrll,... | |
 | Ellen Emma Guthrie - 1885 - Broj stranica: 252
...done, the water was thrown several times in the direction from which the wished-for wind was to blow. This action was accompanied by a certain form of words...every time he threw the water. When the ceremony was finished, the well was again carefully covered up to prevent fatal consequences, it being firmly believed... | |
 | George Laurence Gomme - 1892 - Broj stranica: 218
...the stones carefully removed, and the well cleaned with a wooden dish or clam-shell. This being done, the water was several times thrown in the direction...being firmly believed that were the place left open it would occasion a storm which would overwhelm the whole 1sland.' 2 When to these striking details... | |
 | Edward Walford, George Latimer Apperson - 1894 - Broj stranica: 302
...the stones carefully removed, and the well cleaned with a wooden dish or clam-shell. This being done, the water was several times thrown in the direction...being firmly believed that were the place left open it would occasion a storm, which would overwhelm the whole island. — Martin's Western Islands, p.... | |
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