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Demonology and Devil-Lore. E-book. Formato PDF Moncure Daniel Conway   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

Man s food — Eucharist — Herbert Spencer's explanation — Primi tive ideas — Legends of Adam and Seth — Adamites — A Mormon Mystery of initiation.

Barons of the Potomack and the Rappahannock. E-book. Formato PDF Moncure Daniel Conway   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

Among the pretty legends of Spotswood that lingered on the Rappahannock, one related that he had sailed up the river on a ship made musical with English skylarks. He released these feathered colonists in the meadows, just below the Falls, in Spottsylvania, the county bearing his name. In childhood, daily passing those meadows on my way to school in Fredericksburg, how often did I hear those larks singing in the morning sunshine! But our elders used to smile incredulously at such tales, and the skylarks were heard more rarely in boyhood. When youth was reached they had all changed to mere meadow-larks. But no doubt other children continued to hear them until they were scared away by the hurtling shot and shell which left their happy homes desolate monuments of civil war.

Demonology and Devil-Lore. E-book. Formato PDF Moncure Daniel Conway   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

Three Friars, says a legend, hid themselves near the Witch Sabbath orgies that they might count the devils; but the Chief of these, discovering the friars, said Reve rend Brothers, our army is such that if all the Alps, their rocks and glaciers, were equally divided among us, none would have a pound's weight.' This was in one Alpine valley. Any one who has caught but a glimpse of the world's Walpurgis Night, as revealed in Mythology and Folklore, must agree that this courteous devil did not overstate the case. Any attempt to catalogue the evil Spectres which have haunted mankind were like trying to count the shadows cast upon the earth by the rising sun. This conviction has grown upon the author of this work at every step in his studies of the subject.