 | Heinrich Leo - 1842 - 372 pages
...cake into a bonnet, and cvery one, blind fold, draws ont a portion. The honnet-holder is entitled lo the last bit. Whoever draws the black bit is the devoted person who is to be sacrificed to Baal, whose favonr they mean lo implore in rendering the year prodnctive. The... | |
 | 1852 - 672 pages
...perfectly black. They put all the bits of cake into a bonnet. Everyone blindfold draws out a portion. lie who holds the bonnet is entitled to the last bit....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... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1853 - 690 pages
...the bits of the cake into a bonnet, and every one, blindfold, draws out a portion. The bonnetholder is entitled to the last bit. Whoever draws the black bit is the devoted person, who is to be sacrificed to Baal whose favour t/iey mean to implore in rendering the year productive. The... | |
 | Jacob Ludwig C. [single works] Grimm - 1854 - 728 pages
...the bits of the cake into a bonnet, and every one, blind fold, draws out a portion. the bonnetholder is entitled to the last bit. whoever draws the black bit is the devoted person, who is to be sacrißced to Baal, whose favour they mean to implore in ') Hyde merkt auch von den Guebern... | |
 | William Winwood Reade - 1861 - 276 pages
...charcoal until it is quite black. They put all the bits into a bonnet and every one, blind-folded, draws. He who holds the bonnet is entitled to the last bit. Whoever draws the black morsel is the devoted person who is to be sacrificed to Baal, and is compelled to leap three times... | |
 | Walter Keating Kelly - 1863 - 328 pages
...the bits of the cake into a bonnet, and every one, blindfold, draws out a portion. The bonnet-holder is entitled to the last bit. 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. The... | |
 | Walter Keating Kelly - 1863 - 334 pages
...the bits of the cake into a bonnet, and every one, blindfold, draws out a portion. The bonnet-holder is entitled to the last bit. 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. The... | |
 | Forbes Leslie - 1866 - 374 pages
...charcoal until it- be perfectly black. They put all the bits of cake into a bonnet. Every one, blindfold, draws out a portion. He who holds the bonnet is entitled...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... | |
 | Gilbert John Murray Kynynmond Elliot Earl of Minto - 1870 - 296 pages
...charcoal until it be perfectly black. They put all the bits of cake into a bonnet. Everyone blindfolded draws out a portion. He who holds the bonnet is entitled...to the last bit. Whoever draws the black bit is the person to be sacrificed to Baal, whose favour they mean to implore in rendering the year productive... | |
 | Mary Elizabeth Braddon - 1878 - 542 pages
...until it be perfectly black. They then put all the bits of cake into a bonnet. Everyone, blindfold, draws out a portion. He who holds the bonnet is entitled...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... | |
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draws out a portion. He who holds the bonnet is entitled to the last bit. Whoever draws the black bit is the devoted person, who must be sacrificed to Baal, whose favour they mean to implore, in rendering the year productive of the sustenance of men and... 
