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I would willingly have come sooner, but I had no power to do so till this little heathen (pointing to the new born-babe) was come to the light
Read record →Orm and his wife heard them covering the table, and the clattering of the plates, and the shouts of joy with which they celebrated their banquet
Read record →"Alas!" cried she, "my husband, whom I love more than myself, there he sits, petrified for ever; never again will he open his eyes!
Read record →On Yule-eve alone can petrified Giants receive back their life for the space of seven hours, if one of their race embraces them, and is, at the same time, willing to sacrifice a hundred years of their own life
Read record →[192] Oral. See the Young Piper and the Brewery of Egg-shells in the Irish Fairy Legends, with the notes
Read record →It is a prevalent opinion in the North that all the various beings of the popular creed were once worsted in a conflict with superior powers, and condemned to remain till doomsday in certain assigned abodes
Read record →The infant then was left where it was, untouched and unbaptised
Read record →"A long, long time ago there lived in Rügen a mighty Giant named Balderich
Read record →A Giant-maiden commenced a similar operation on the Pomeranian side "in order," said she, "that I may be able to go over the bit of water without wetting my little slippers." So she filled her apron with sand and hurried down to the sea-side
Read record →John lay quite still from ten till twelve at night
Read record →The three little men came slily up to him, and thought by their nimbleness to get back the cap; but he held his prize fast, and they saw clearly that nothing was to be done in this way with him; for in size and strength John was a giant in comparison of these
Read record →rowed for the third time, and the little larks had made their first twirl in the sky, and the infant light appeared in solitary white streaks in the east, then it went hush, hush, hush, through the bushes, and flowers, and stalks; and the hills rang again, and
Read record →John, however, saw nothing but solitary halls, lighted up with precious stones, and here and there little men and women, who appeared to him to glide out of the clefts and fissures of the rocks
Read record →John at first pitied them, seeing how they were forced to run about and wait on the little people; but as they looked cheerful and happy, and were handsomely dressed, and had such rosy cheeks, he said to himself, "After all, they are not so badly off, and I wa
Read record →They sat at table about two hours; the principal person then rang a little bell, and the tables and chairs all vanished in a whiff, leaving the company all on their feet
Read record →She was from his own village, and was the daughter of Frederick Krabbe, the minister of Rambin
Read record →"Dearest John," said she, "everything down here is very beautiful, and the little people are kind, and do nothing to injure me, but still I have always been uneasy, nor ever felt any pleasure till I began to love you; and yet that is not pure pleasure, for thi
Read record →But "No, my lad," replied the farmer, "I will not let you go till you tell me who you are, and how you came here, and what trade you know, that enables you to earn your bread in the world." At this the little man grinned and shook his head, but said not a word
Read record →The farmer first ordered him to give him his history
Read record →k for you," said she, taking out a little white stick which had Adam and Eve very ingeniously cut on it, as they were feeding the herds of Paradise, with the fattest sheep and lambs dancing before them; and there was the shepherd David too, as he stood with hi
Read record →In the Heldenbuch we meet with the Dwarf-king Laurin, whose garden Dietrich of Bern and his warriors broke into and laid waste
Read record →When May arrives Otnit sails from Messina with his troops
Read record →Overcome by his representations and her father's danger, the princess, with her mother's consent, agrees to wed the monarch whom Elberich points out to her in the battle, and she gives her ring to be conveyed to him
Read record →They are silent and beneficent, and willingly serve those who have the good fortune to please them
Read record →He then renewed his thanks, and concluded by begging of one of the company to put him over the river Satzach, opposite the mountain
Read record →There appeared in the night to one of the Counts von Hoya, an extremely small little man
Read record →When it drew near the morning, and they were about to take their departure, the little man came again up to the count, and with many thanks, presented him a sword, a salamander-cloth, and a golden ring, in which there was inserted a red-lion, with directions f
Read record →On the east side of the Dwarf-hill of Dardesheim there is a piece of arable land
Read record →As he was one day cutting his corn he asked him if he would the next night, for a good sum of money, take a freight over the river
Read record →At Offensen on the Aller in Lower Saxony, lived a great farmer, whose name was Hövermann
Read record →working in his ground which lay in the neighbourhood of the place called the Dwarfs' hole, and his wife had brought out to the field to him for his breakfast some fresh baked bread, and had laid it, tied up in a napkin, at the end of the field, there came up s
Read record →PAGE The Place 7 The Salemite of Forty Years Ago 8 How the Subject was opened 9 Careful Historiography 10 The Actors in the Tragedy 12 Philosophy of the Delusion 12 Character of the Early Settlement 13 First Causes 15 Death of the Patriarch 16 Growth of Witchc
Read record →ere doubtless occasions when its citizens remembered the early days of glory, when their fathers helped to chase the retreating British, on the first shedding of blood in the war of Independence
Read record →Our reason for selecting the date of thirty-seven years ago for our glance at the Salem of the last generation is, that at that time a clergyman resident there fixed the attention of the inhabitants on the history of their forefathers by delivering lectures on
Read record →The ghosts of murdered wives and children will play their parts with a vividness of representation and artistic skill of expression that have hardly been surpassed in scenic representations on the stage
Read record →Upham may mean more than some people would in what he says of the new opening made by science into the dark depths of mystery covered by the term Witchcraft; for he is not only the brother-in-law but the intimate friend and associate of Dr
Read record →arrested for debt in full meeting--the debt being for the funeral expenses of his wife--was absolved from all blame under the cruel neglect he had experienced--and left the Village
Read record →There had been misery enough caused by persecutions for witchcraft within living memory to have warned Mr
Read record →Norton," an eminent pastor, "once said at his own table"--before clergymen and elders--"that one of their magistrates' wives was hanged for a witch, only for having more wit than her neighbors;" and to be aware that in Boston "a deep feeling of resentment" aga
Read record →We need not describe the course of events
Read record →In the first group of accused persons was one Sarah Good, a weak, ignorant, poor, despised woman, whose equally weak and ignorant husband had forsaken her, and left her to the mercy of evil tongues
Read record →But she was not wholly broken in spirit
Read record →e of the afternoon I lay me down on the bed to take a little rest; and immediately I was almost pressed and choked to death, that had it not been for the mercy of a gracious God and the help of those that were with me, I could not have lived many moments; and
Read record →Ann Putnam made another deposition under oath at the same trial, which shows that she was determined to overwhelm the prisoner by the multitude of her charges
Read record →After sacrament the elders propounded to the church, and the congregation unanimously agreed, that Sister Nurse, being convicted as a witch by the court, should be excommunicated in the afternoon of the same day
Read record →Easty could say only that she supposed it was "a bad spirit," but did not know "whether it was witchcraft or not," there was nothing to be done but to send her to prison and put her in irons
Read record →The older children were scattered he knew not where, while one of them had completed the bitterness of his lot by becoming a confessor, upon being arrested with her mother as a witch
Read record →He was once tried for the death of a man whom he had used roughly, but he was only fined
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