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That such a pretty little woman, such a gay soul, such a good judge of men for she was a judge, I'll swear that she should have ever been in love with this sack of lard I was driving to Nice well, that did astonish me beyond measure; though it should not have done so, knowing women as I do, and seeing how old Father Time does stick his dirty fingers on our idols and make banshees of the best of them.
"They do, and abominably bad taste I call it, unless a man has neglected to insure his life, and then I doubt if a person of honour could make use of information from from that quarter. Banshees are chiefly the spectres of attached and anxious old family nurses, women of the lower orders, and completely destitute of tact. I call a Banshee rather a curse than a boon and a blessing to men.
Many a bit of English folk-lore many an odd Irish fancy concerning fairies and the like; symbols of good-luck; banshees and "the little-folk" came honestly to these people from the days of the Druids.
"Terms of the will. Oh, well, Geraldine'll drink herself to death in a few years, and Nelda will elope with a prize-fighter, sometime." "Why don't you have the house haunted? The Tri-State Agency has an excellent house-haunting department. Anything you want; poltergeists; apparitions; cold, clammy hands in the dark; footsteps in the attic; clanking chains and eldritch screams; banshees.
I had been healthy strong full blooded. On the fullness of vitality one would live forever. There is no tomorrow. It was not a year ago. I was eighty. It had been so with Watson. What was this subtle thing that ate into one's marrow? I had read of banshees, lemures and leprechauns; they were the ghosts and the fairies of ignorance but they were not like this. It was impersonal, hidden, inexorable.
We were all wailing like banshees up there, but she no more than the rest. 'Tis better she is," and Moya nodded reassuringly to the grown-ups, who were, she knew, deeply interested in the Italian woman's recovery of her nervous strength. "This explosion business I don't understand," Mr. Emerson said slowly to himself. "What did you find in the fireplace this morning, Moya?
The incident of the recovery of the bride not found in all the stories New Zealand sagas Andrianòro Mother-right The father represented under a forbidding aspect Tasks imposed on the hero The Buddhist theory of the Grateful Animals The feather-robe a symbol of bride's superhuman character Mode of capture The Taboo Dislike of fairies for iron Utterance of name forbidden Other prohibitions Fulfilment of fate The taboo a mark of progress in civilization The divine ancestress Totems and Banshees Re-appearance of mother to her children The lady of the Van Pool an archaic deity.
The strange part of it was, though my reason told me that he had been a victim of his own brilliant imagination, part of my mind that part that believed in second sight and banshees and were-wolves, and stuff of that sort told me that he was not so very much wrong after all. "I'll get to sleep," he said, interrupting the train of my thoughts. "I'll be fresh when my turn comes for guard."
She was thoroughly a woman: she wanted something to happen, dramatically, romantically. But her want was a vain one. The man smiled quizzically at Nora, who acknowledged the salutation by a curtsy which would have frightened away the banshees of her childhood. Nora hated scenes, and Courtlandt had the advantage of her in his knowledge of this.
Other people may see or hear it, but the fated one never, so that when everyone present is aware of it but one, the fate of that one may be regarded as pretty well certain." We must now pass on from the subject of Banshees to the kindred one of "Headless Coaches," the belief in which is widespread through the country.
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