 In my infant and boyish days, too, I owed much to an old woman who resided in the family, remarkable for her ignorance, credulity, and superstition. She had, I suppose, the largest collection in the country of tales and songs concerning devils, ghosts,...  Robert Burns - Page 14by Thomas Finlayson Henderson - 1904 - 202 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Burns - 1800 - 424 pages
...who " resided in the family, remarkable for her igno" ranee, credulity, and superstition. She had, " I suppose, the largest collection in the country "...brownies, witches, warlocks, spunkies, " kelpies, elf-candles, dead-lights, wraiths, appa" ritions, cantraips, giants, inchanted towers, <f dragons,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1806 - 422 pages
...woman who resided in the family, remarkable for her ignorance, credulity and superstition. She had, I suppose, the largest collection in the country of...witches, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elf" candles, .— ». * Idiot for idiotic. candles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions, cantraips, giants, enchanted... | |
 | James Plumptre - Songs, English - 1811 - 486 pages
...woman who resided in the family, remarkable for her ignorance, credulity and superstition. She had, I suppose, the largest collection in the country of...fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elf-candles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions, cantraips, giants, enchanted towers, dragons and other... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1814 - 306 pages
...woman who resided hi the family, remarkabte for her ignorance, credulity, and superstition. She had, I suppose, the largest collection in the country of...devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spunkeys, kelpies, elf-candles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions, cantraips, giants, enchanted lowers,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1816 - 714 pages
...woman who resided in the family, remarkable for her ignorance, credulity, and superstition. She had, I suppose, the largest collection in the country of...fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elf-candles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions, cantraips, giants, inchantcd towers, dragons, and other... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1816 - 342 pages
...woman who resided in the family, remarkable for her ignorance, credulity and superstition. She had, I suppose, the largest collection in the country of...devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spunkics, kelpies, elf-candles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions, cantraips, giants, enchanted towers,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1819 - 388 pages
...woman who resided in the family, remarkable for her ignorance, credulity, and superstition. She had, I suppose, the largest collection in the country of...fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elfcandles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions, cantraps, giants, enchanted towers, dragons, and other... | |
 | British prose literature - 1819 - 364 pages
...woman who resided in the family, remarkable for her ignorance, credulity, and superstition. She had, I suppose, the largest collection in the country of...fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elfcandles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions, cantraps, giants, enchanted towers, dragons, and other... | |
 | Biography - 1819 - 196 pages
...he shewed any attachment to poetry, notwithstanding his acquaintance with an antient beldam, who had the largest collection in the country of tales and songs, concerning devils, ghosts, fairies, witches, &c. In his seventeenth year, he went to a country dancing-school, though much in opposition... | |
 | Biography - 1819 - 404 pages
...he shewed any attachment to poetry, notwithstanding his acquaintance with an anticnt heldam, who had the largest collection in the country of tales and songs, concerning devils, ghosts, fairies, witches, Au-. In his seventeenth year, he went to a country dancing-school, though much in opposition... | |
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