 | John Jamieson - 1879 - 692 pages
...doubt of these inhuman sacrifices having been onto offered in this country, as well as in the cast, although they now pass from the act of sacrificing,...the devoted person to leap three times through the names ; with which the ceremonies of this festival are closed. "Bal-ttin signifies the fire of Baal.... | |
 | William Marshall - 1880 - 470 pages
...is little doubt of these inhuman sacrifices having been once offered in this country, as well as in the East, although they now pass from the act of sacrificing, and only compel the det'otfd person to leap three times through the flames, with which the ceremonies of the festival are... | |
 | Robert Macgregor - 1881 - 226 pages
...once offered in this country as well as in the East, although they now pass from the act of sacrifice, and only compel the devoted person to leap three times through the flames, with which act the ceremonies of this festival are closed." While it is clear that some of these rites are peculiarly... | |
 | John Collett (poet.) - 1883 - 236 pages
...is little doubt of these inhuman sacrifices having been once offered in this country, as well as in the East, although they now pass from the act of sacrificing,...which the ceremonies of this festival are closed.' — Ibid. vol. xi. p. 261. Mr. Pennant gives a similar account, with the addition of some other circumstances.... | |
 | Alexander Mackenzie, Alexander Macgregor, Alexander Macbain - 1884 - 604 pages
...is little doubt of these inhuman sacrifices having been once offered in this country, as well as in the East, although they now pass from the act of sacrificing,...through the flames ; with which the ceremonies of the festival are closed." To this sensible account and its inferences, all but the reference to Baal,... | |
 | Alexander Mackenzie - 1884 - 776 pages
...is little doubt of these inhuman sacrifices having been once offered in this country, as well as in the East, although they now pass from the act of sacrificing,...through the flames ; with which the ceremonies of the festival are closed." To this sensible account and its inferences, all but the reference to Baal,... | |
 | Henry William J. Senior - 1885 - 208 pages
...is little doubt of these inhuman sacrifices having once been offered in this country as well as in the east, although they now pass from the act of sacrificing,...with which the ceremonies of this festival are closed " (Ibid. vol. xi., p. 621). " In the worship of Baal, as practised by the idolatrous Israelites in... | |
 | 1890 - 786 pages
...is little doubt of these inhuman sacrifices having been once offered in this country, as well as in the east, although they now pass from the act of sacrificing,...through the flames ; with which the ceremonies of ihis festival are closed. The other custom is, that on All-Saint* Kven they ?.et up bonfires in c very... | |
 | 1800 - 116 pages
...is little doubt of these inhuman sacrifices having been once offered in this country, as well as in the east, although they now pass from the act of sacrificing,...which the ceremonies of this festival are closed." Again referring to Jamieson, he says : — " The respect paid by the ancient Britons to Belus, or Belinus,... | |
 | Elford Higgens - 1893 - 98 pages
...is little doubt of these inhuman sacrifices having been once offered in this country, as well as in the East, although they now pass from the act of sacrificing,...which the ceremonies of this festival are closed.' 73. In ' Peasant Life in Sweden ' (Lloyd), p. 259, we read : ' St. Hans' Eve (Midsummer Eve) is the... | |
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Whoever draws the black bit is the devoted person who is to be sacrificed to Baal* whose favour they mean to implore, in rendering the year productive of the sustenance of man and beast. There is little doubt of these inhuman sacrifices having been once... 
