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For the proofs from the shell heaps, combined with the reflected evidences of folk-lore, show, that cannibalism was common in the early ages, and that among the aboriginal hill tribes it lingered after the inhabitants of the plain and shore had been subdued.
The poet need not go far from Blackfriars to pick up scraps of German and folk-lore, for the Hanse merchants were located in great numbers in the neighborhood of the steel-yard in Lower Thames Street. Foreigners as well as contemporary chronicles and the printed diatribes against luxury bear witness to the profusion in all ranks of society and the variety and richness in apparel.
A suspected thief was overheard boasting, "They never catches me: and they never ooll neither. I allus wears a toad's heart round my neck, I does." See Mrs. Ella M. Leather, in Folk-lore, xxiv. p. 238. Above, p. 301. The writer does not say where this took place; probably it was in Cornwall or Devonshire. Rev.
Tegnér was, with Geijer and Ling, the first to adopt national subjects, to use the Scandinavian myths and folk-lore in their poetry, in opposition to the classical themes and the Hellenic mythology, until then exclusively in vogue in the poetical field.
Though I have written my little book in the interests of folk-lore, I hope it will gain the attention of, and have some interest for, children of Australian children, because they will find stories of old friends among the Bush birds; and of English children, because I hope that they will be glad to make new friends, and so establish a free trade between the Australian and English nurseries wingless, and laughing birds, in exchange for fairy godmothers, and princes in disguise.
It belongs to a group of stories of the grateful dead, which have been the subject of an interesting book recently published by the Folk-Lore Society. Mr.
The bramble, an important plant in folk-lore, is partly unlucky, and, "To dream of passing through places covered with brambles portends troubles; if they prick you, secret enemies will do you an injury with your friends; if they draw blood, expect heavy losses in trade." But to dream of passing through brambles unhurt denotes a triumph over enemies.
J. Roscoe, The Baganda, p. 80. Rev. R. Sutherland Rattray, op. cit. pp. 191 sq. Rev. See Totemism and Exogamy, iv. 224 sqq. This statement applies especially to the Ama-Xosa. G. McCall Theal, Kaffir Folk-lore, p. 218. Rev. Compare above, p. 28. The other consequences supposed to flow from the omission of the rites are mentioned by Father Campana. From Mr. The Rev. G. Brown, quoted by the Rev.
So the swan-maiden kept her human form, as long as she was deprived of her tunic of feathers. Indo-European folk-lore teems with stories of swan-maidens forcibly wooed and won by mortals who had stolen their clothes. A man travelling along the road passes by a lake where several lovely girls are bathing; their dresses, made of feathers curiously and daintily woven, lie on the shore.
Far back into the darkness of time, the folk-lore of Somo cast a glimmering light. On a day, so far back that there was no way of estimating its distance, one, Somo, son of Loti, who was the chief of the island fortress of Umbo, had quarrelled with his father and fled from his wrath along with a dozen canoe-loads of young men. For two monsoons they had engaged in an odyssey.
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