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Updated: May 14, 2025
It is with sacrifice, or by means of sacrifice, that their gods are approached by all men, beginning even with the jungle-dwellers of Chota Nagpur, who sacrifice fowls and offer victims, for the purpose of conciliating the powers that send jungle-fever and murrain.
Similarly in Poland the peasants are said to kindle fires in the village streets every year on St. Rochus's day and to drive the cattle thrice through them in order to protect the beasts against the murrain. We have seen that in the Hebrides the cattle were in like manner driven annually round the Beltane fires for the same purpose.
"Nay, a murrain on thee! an' thou wilt go, go!" cried he at last, with a savage dig of his heels into the animal's ribs, and away they clattered, the led-horse kicking up its heels as a final parting, setting Gascoyne fairly alaughing.
And lastly, a plague, a special plague, a veritable murrain on Lola Brandt for complicating the splendid singleness of my purpose. I don't know what to think of myself. I have become a common conundrum which provides the lowest form of intellectual amusement. It is all her fault. Listen.
There is no other remedy! But two days since, the child of my neighbor Engla passed her on the Fjord; and now the boy has sickened of some strange disease, and 'tis said he will die. Again, the drove of cattle owned by Hildmar Bjorn were herded home when she passed by. Now they are seized by the murrain plague! Tell your good saint Dyceworthy these things; if he can find no cure, I can, and will!"
What the murrain is gone, aloft there?" Alas! a crack, a flap, a rattle; and blank dismay! "Forward, and cut away the wreck!" said Amyas, unmoved. "Small arm men, be ready. He will be aboard of us in five minutes!" It was too true.
All forms of animistic religion make it their chief business to avert the wrath of the gods, to which calamities of all kinds sickness, storm, murrain, loss of harvest are ascribed, by some kind of propitiation; and in this the Khasis are not singular.
"What, young malapert?" cried poor Leigh, facing round upon his son, glad to find any one on whom he might vent his ill-humor; "are you too against me, with a murrain on you? And pray, what the devil brought Cuthbert Mayne to the gallows, and turned Mr. Parsons must needs hold in my house, to make a beggar of me and my children, as he will before he has done."
Fett, as I drew him away and down the street leading to the quay, "I believe murrain to be a disease peculiar to cattle. Well, my friend, and how goes it with you? For me" here he tapped his basket, in which the cabbage crowned a pile of green-stuff "I am reduced to buying my salads." He wheeled about, following my glance, and saluted the Princess, who had followed and overtaken us.
To his thinking God has little or nothing to do with the murrain, but witches, ill-wishers, and fairies have a great deal to do with it.
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