 ... to their skill in masonry, in constructing these edifices, but are believed to have bathed the foundation-stone with human blood, in order to propitiate the spirit of the soil. Similar to this is the Gaelic tradition, according to which St. Columba...  Journal of Psychological Medicine - Page 1481872Full view - About this book
 | Walter Scott - Ballads, English - 1902 - 428 pages
...the Gaelic tradition, according to which St. Columba is supposed to have been forced to bury St. Oran alive, beneath the foundation of his monastery, in...demolished by night what was built during the day. common signal for his assassination. Thus, Lindsay of Pitscottie relates in his History, p. 17, that,... | |
 | Edward Burnett Tylor - Animism - 1903 - 536 pages
...foundation-stones with human blood ; and legend even tells that St. Columba found it necessary to bury St. Oran alive beneath the foundation of his monastery, in...propitiate the spirits of the soil who demolished by night svhat was built during the day. So late as 1843, in Germany, when a new bridge was built at Halle,... | |
 | Folklore Society (Great Britain) - Folklore - 1904 - 212 pages
...the Gaelic tradition, according to which St. Columba is supposed to have been forced to bury St. Oran alive beneath the foundation of his monastery, in...demolished by night what was built during the day. RICHARDSON, Legendary, vol. ii. p. 168, 2. Alnmouth. 1789. There was discovered near the ruins of the... | |
 | Josiah Morse - Psychology, Pathological - 1906 - 284 pages
...custom of propitiating the deity by the immolation of human victims upon the founding of a city. " So late as 1843, in Germany, when a new bridge was...people that a child was wanted to be built into the foundation."1 The wall of Copenhagen, legend says, sank as fast as it was built ; so they took an innocent... | |
 | Josiah Morse - Psychology, Pathological - 1906 - 284 pages
...custom of propitiating the deity by the immolation of human victims upon the founding of a city. " So late as 1843, in Germany, when a new bridge was...the people that a child was wanted to be built into 1 Conquest of Mexico, Vol. 1, ch. 3. 2 The Aztecs, pp. 162-163. the foundation."1 The wall of Copenhagen,... | |
 | 1925 - 366 pages
...even tells us that yo St. Columba found it necessary to bury St. Oran alive beneath the foundations of his monastery, in order to propitiate the spirits...abroad among the people that a child was wanted to build into the foundation. These ideas of church or wall or bridge wanting human blood or an immortal... | |
 | Richard Mercer Dorson - Folklore - 1999 - 416 pages
...foundation-stones with human blood; and legend even tells that St. Columba found it neeessary to bury St. Oran alive beneath the foundation of his monastery, in...Halle, a notion was abroad among the people that a ehild was wanted to be built into the foundation. These ideas of ehureh or wall or bridge wanting human... | |
 | Josiah Morse - Psychology, Pathological - 1906 - 286 pages
...custom of propitiating the deity by the immolation of human victims upon the founding of a city. " So late as 1843, in Germany, when a new bridge was...child was wanted to be built into the foundation." J The wall of Copenhagen, legend says, sank as fast as it was built ; so they took an innocent little... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1833 - 420 pages
...the Gaelic tradition, according to which St Columba is supposed to have been forced to bury St Oran alive, beneath the foundation of his monastery, in...propitiate the spirits of the soil, who demolished by night ithat was built during the day, . . , ^ " 'Twas here for Mangerton's brave lord A bloody feast was... | |
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