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During the entire day, I was busy pulling pins out of Esther; they came out of the air from all quarters, and were stuck into all the exposed portions of her person, even the head, and inside of her ears
Read record →"A trumpet was heard in the house all day
Read record →flung the window as wide open as it would go, and before leaving set the door open, with a heavy chair against it; but previous to this (I omitted to mention) as we were looking up at the window after the appearance of the hands, we saw a horrible object come
Read record →"After remaining in the same attitude for what seemed to me an incalculably long time, it gradually receded, and assuming all of a sudden a horizontal attitude, passed head first through the wall opposite to where I sat
Read record →I tried to shriek to my servants; I could not ejaculate a syllable
Read record →"In the spring of the year 1891, great excitement was occasioned by a disembodied spirit in a haunted house in LePort, at Nice
Read record →Hundreds from all over this county and adjacent ones have visited the place, but few have had the courage to pass the night in the haunted house
Read record →the wailing that broke forth from every direction was something terrific, and an unearthly rattle and banging as of china or tin pans being flung to the ground floor from the upper story added to the deafening noise
Read record →"The haunted house in question is near Wandsworth common
Read record →Still I retained pride, if not courage; and in my own mind I said: 'This is horror, but it is not fear; unless I fear I cannot be harmed; my reason rejects this thing; it is an illusion--I do not fear.' With a violent effort I succeeded at last in stretching o
Read record →tly unsubstantial, impalpable, simulacra, phantasms), and there was something incongruous, grotesque, yet fearful in the contrast between the elaborate finery, the courtly precision of that old-fashioned garb, with its ruffles and lace and buckles, and the cor
Read record →"For some time a great knocking having been heard in the night, at the officiating parish clerk's of St
Read record →History abounds in cases showing the apparent intrusion of spiritual help in time of trouble, and in the annals of military history, these accounts are not lacking
Read record →The name 'Babylon' carries with it the sound of a deep, mysterious spell, such a conjuration as might be uttered in the recesses of secret temples
Read record →Among the conquests of this great monarch, whose splendour shines through the shadows of antiquity like the distant flash of arms on a misty day, was the fair island of Cyprus
Read record →It was probably in the reign of this monarch that the queen known in legend as Semiramis lived
Read record →ereof; but the King said that if they were wise men in truth they would know the dream without requiring to be told it, and upon some of the astrologers of the court replying that the request was unreasonable, he was greatly incensed and ordered all of them to
Read record →In his time happened the great deluge; the history of which is given in this manner
Read record →This perhaps related how the earth and its inhabitants were not to the liking of the Creator, and how he resolved to recreate the whole
Read record →of Abram into a fiery furnace at Babylon by order of Nimrod, which seems to be a corrupted story of the deliverance of the three Hebrews recorded by Daniel--Nimrod merely substituted for Nebuchadrezzar, as no evidence exists that Abram ever was at Babylon
Read record →Their relentless search was not the lovers' only anxiety, for in seeking refuge with some shepherds in a meadow, they encountered a demon--a satyr, which in the shape of a goat haunted that part of the country
Read record →Here Sinonis' wound was healed, and afterward they sought refuge with a cottager, whose daughter consented to dispose of some trinkets belonging to Sinonis
Read record →This indicated to him the possibility that their contents were similar
Read record →It was developed from picture-writing, and indeed some of the more highly significant of the pictorial signs can still be faintly traced in their cuneiform equivalents
Read record →They learned of her plot, and great was their wrath
Read record →Soon he came to Tiawath's retreat, but at sight of the monster he halted, and with reason, for there crouched the great dragon, her scaly body still gleaming with the waters of the abyss, flame darting from her eyes and nostrils, and such terrific sounds issui
Read record →We shall probably not be far in error if we regard the myth of the combat between Merodach and Tiawath as an explanation of the primal strife between light and darkness
Read record →The Sumerian incantation, which is provided with a Semitic translation, adds somewhat to our knowledge of this cosmogony
Read record →They did so, and "a great fish" swallowed him
Read record →The picturesque legend of Bel and the Dragon which appears in the Apocrypha, and which was at one time appended to the Book of Daniel, shows us the manner in which Bel was worshipped at Babylon, and how he was supposed to take human shape, devour food, and beh
Read record →Seven lions were in the den and their food was removed from them so that they might be the fiercer, and the Apocrypha story, which differs considerably from that given in the sixth chapter of the Book of Daniel, states that the angel of the Lord took up a cert
Read record →Allatu is greatly enraged when the demand is made "in the name of the great gods," and curses Ashushu-namir with a terrible curse, condemning him to dwell in the darkness of a dungeon, with the garbage of the city for his food
Read record →His mother, Rimat-belit, is a priestess in the temple of Ishtar, and through her he is descended from Ut-Napishtim, a native of Shurippak, and the hero of the Babylonian flood-legend
Read record →Aruru washed her hands, she broke off a piece of clay, she cast it on the ground
Read record →Another reading describes the encounter as purely accidental
Read record →The feast of Ishtar was in progress when they reached Erech
Read record →In these we find Eabani lamenting the loss of his former freedom and showering maledictions on the temple-maiden who has lured him thither
Read record →The VIIth and VIIIth tablets are extremely fragmentary, and so much of the text as is preserved is open to various readings
Read record →This sinister vision appears to have been a presage of Eabani's death
Read record →In reply Ut-Napishtim introduces the story of the Babylonian deluge, which, told as it is without interruption, forms a separate and complete narrative, and is in itself a myth of exceptional interest
Read record →He in turn bade his wife compound a magic preparation, containing seven ingredients, and administer it to Gilgamesh while he slept
Read record →The manner in which they meet their end is likewise taken into account, and warriors who have fallen on the field of battle are pre-eminently fortunate
Read record →Zu was a storm-god symbolized in the form of a bird
Read record →Thy name doth charm the land, and covers it like a garment
Read record →And the false prophet showed them the image which he had feigned out of his own heart, and said that it was the image of that star which was made known to him by prophecy
Read record →Now when the feeling began to obtain that there was such a quality as justice in the universe, and when the idea of just gods had an acceptance among the people through the instruction of thinking theologians, the more vulgar practices of the sorcerer-priests
Read record →Gudea, who had made Nin-girsu his favourite, attempted to 'work him into' this festival by uniting him in marriage with Bau, and he offers her marriage gifts on New Year's Day
Read record →The monotony of these laments is typical of ancient Semitic worship
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