The History and Doctrine of Budhism, Populary Illustrated
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This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 86 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.2in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1829 Excerpt: . . . middle ages, whose ancestors emigrated out of the north of Iran and Hindostan, borrowed their ecclesiastical mummery of the Abbot of Misrule, and other singular practices. --Faber, ii. 497. Among the Celtic nation, the new moon nearest to the winter solstices was peculiarly celebrated. The chief Druid went into the woods on that night, and cut with a golden sickle a branch of the mistletoe of the oak, called Ghiah, in the Celtic. The people also cut branches for themselves, and carried them home, after they had been blessed by the chief Druid, whence the usage of adorning our churches with evergreens. In France, at the Christmas gambols, as late as the reign of Louis XIV. , when they were suppressed on account of their irregularities, traces of the Druidical usages were found. A man, personating a prince (roi follet, a mummer), set out from the village into the woods, bawling out, Au gui menez, le roi le veult; the monks followed in the rear, with their begging boxes, which they rattled, crying lire-lire, and the people put money in them, under the fiction that it was for a lady in labour. Persons in disguise (guiscards) forced into dwelling-houses, playing antic tricks, and bullying the inmates for money and choice victuals, crying, tire-lire, tire-lire, maint du blanc et point du bis (pis). Hence, says the late Professor Robison, of Edinburgh (from whose work on Natural Philosophy, p. 200, this note is taken), evidently was derived the guiscarts of Edinburgh, and their cry Hog menay, troll lollay, Gies your white bread, and none o your gray. The old French au gui menez, and the Scottish hog menay, are plainly corruptions of the Greek ctyiapApn), holy moon, which was anciently supposed to be in labour at the time of the . . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN.

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1829 Excerpt: ...middle ages, whose ancestors emigrated out of the north of Iran and Hindostan, borrowed their ecclesiastical mummery of the Abbot of Misrule, and other singular practices."--Faber, ii. 497. "Among the Celtic nation, the new moon nearest to the winter solstices was peculiarly celebrated. The chief Druid went into the woods on that night, and cut with a golden sickle a branch of the mistletoe of the oak, called Ghiah, in the Celtic. The people also cut branches for themselves, and carried them home, after they had been blessed by the chief Druid, whence the usage of adorning our churches with evergreens. "In France, at the Christmas gambols, as late as the reign of Louis XIV., when they were suppressed on account of their irregularities, traces of the Druidical usages were found. A man, personating a prince (roi follet, "a mummer"), set out from the village into the woods, bawling out, Au gui menez, le roi le veult; the monks followed in the rear, with their begging boxes, which they rattled, crying lire-lire, and the people put money in them, under the fiction that it was for a lady in labour. Persons in disguise (guiscards) forced into dwelling-houses, playing antic tricks, and bullying the inmates for money and choice victuals, crying, tire-lire, tire-lire, maint du blanc et 'point du bis (pis). Hence, says the late Professor Robison, of Edinburgh (from whose work on Natural Philosophy, p. 200, this note is taken), evidently was derived the guiscarts of Edinburgh, and their cry ' Hog menay, troll lollay, Gie's your white bread, and none o' your gray.' The old French au gui menez, and the Scottish hog menay, are plainly corruptions of the Greek ctyiapApn), 'holy moon,' which was anciently supposed to be in labour at the time of the ... Paperback, Label: RareBooksClub.com, RareBooksClub.com, Product group: Book, Published: 2012-05-14, Studio: RareBooksClub.com.

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Excerpt from The History and Doctrine of Budhism, Popularly Illustrated: With Notices of the Kappooism, or Demon Worship, and of the Bali, or Planetary Incantations of Ceylon The author can only regret, that his best efforts and most abstruse and difficult subjects cannot furnish more palpable results he flatters himself that the candid and patient reader may yet gat toil; and that every point of the moral and religious code of I books, and exemplified in the actions of its followers, will Excerpt from The History and Doctrine of Budhism, Popularly Illustrated: With Notices of the Kappooism, or Demon Worship, and of the Bali, or Planetary Incantations of Ceylon The author can only regret, that his best efforts and most abstruse and difficult subjects cannot furnish more palpable results he flatters himself that the candid and patient reader may yet gat toil; and that every point of the moral and religious code of I books, and exemplified in the actions of its followers, will demons owe to the Supreme Being, to endeavour to become the humble´ About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. Lieferzeit 1-2 Werktage.

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