In this sacred grove there grew a certain tree round which at any time of the day, and probably far into the night, a grim figure might be seen to prowl. In his hand he carried a drawn sword, and he kept peering warily about him as if at every instant... The king of the wood. The perils of the soul - Page 8by James George Frazer - 1900Full view - About this book
| James George Frazer - Dying and rising gods - 1890 - 436 pages
...if every ir.stant he expected to be set upon by an enemy He was a priest and a murderer; and the v man for whom he looked was sooner or later to murder...rule of the sanctuary. A candidate for the priesthood coulcfonly succeed to office by slaying the priest, and having slain him he held office till he _^was... | |
| William Holden Hutton - Sermons, English - 1911 - 256 pages
...sword, and — " Peering warily about him as if every instant he expected to be set upon by an enemy. He was a priest and a murderer, and the man for whom...murder him, and hold the priesthood in his stead." 2 What a contrast ! Can the convert recognise any 1 See Jevons's Introduction to the History of Religion,... | |
| Bessie Rebecca Burchett - Cults - 1912 - 90 pages
...and he kept peering warily about him as if at every instant he expected to be set upon by an enemy. He was a priest and a murderer; and the man for whom...stead. Such was the rule of the sanctuary. A candidate could succeed to office only by slaying the priest. . . . . . The post which he held by this precarious... | |
| Classical literature - 1915 - 248 pages
...warily about him as if every instant he expected to be set upon by an enemy. He was a priest and 3 murderer ; and the man for whom he looked was sooner...stead. Such was the rule of the sanctuary. A candidate could succeed to office only by slaying the priest. . . . The post which he held by this precarious... | |
| James Augustin Brown Scherer - American fiction - 1921 - 140 pages
...Bough. "He kept peering warily about him as if at every instant he expected to 'be set upon by an enemy. He was a priest and a murderer; and the man for whom...to murder him and hold the priesthood in his stead. Year in, year out, in summer and winter, in fair weather and in foul, he had to keep his lonely watch,... | |
| English Association - English literature - 1911 - 192 pages
...sword, and he kept peering warily about him, as if every instant he expected to be set upon by an enemy. He was a priest and a murderer ; and the man for whom...murder him and hold the priesthood in his stead.' * For the full significance of this weird story readers must be referred to the pages of The Golden... | |
| Jonathan Z. Smith - Religion - 1978 - 358 pages
...and he kept peering warily ahout him as if at every instant he expected to he set upon hy an enemy. He was a priest and a murderer ; and the man for whom...candidate for the priesthood could only succeed to the office by slaying the priest, and having slain him, he retained office till he was himself slain... | |
| James A. Boon - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1982 - 324 pages
...expected to be set upon. He was at once a priest and murderer; and the man for whom he was watching was sooner or later to murder him and hold the priesthood in his stead. For such was the rule of the sanctuary: a candidate for the priesthood could succeed to office only... | |
| Jonathan Z. Smith - Religion - 1993 - 350 pages
...warily about him as if at every instant he expected to be set upon by an enemy. He was a priest anda murderer ; and the man for whom he looked was sooner...candidate for the priesthood could only succeed to the office by slaying the priest, and having slain him, he retained office till he was himself slain... | |
| James E. B. Breslin - Art - 1993 - 778 pages
...Settlement of Pale town like Dvinsk. "He was a priest and a murderer," Frazer writes, "and the man 391 for whom he looked was sooner or later to murder him and hold the priesthood in his stead." 74 Rothko, who has just bragged to Fischer that "we destroyed cubism. Nobody can paint a cubist picture... | |
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