| 1878 - 588 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... | |
| John Jamieson - 1879 - 692 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...the last bit. Whoever draws the black bit, is the devot«! person who is to 1ю sacrificed to Baal, whose favour they mean to implore, in rendering the... | |
| William Marshall - 1880 - 470 pages
...until it be perfectly black. They put all the bits of the cake into a bonnet. Every one, blindfold, draws out a portion. He who holds the bonnet is entitled to the List bit. Whoever draws the black bit is the dnot'.d person who is to be sacrificed to Baal, whose... | |
| John Collett (poet.) - 1883 - 236 pages
...it be perfectly black. They put all the bits of cake into a NOTES. " 5 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... | |
| Jacob Grimm - 1883 - 506 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... | |
| Jacob Ludwig C. [single works] Grimm - 1883 - 502 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... | |
| Alexander Macbain - 1885 - 148 pages
...until it be perfectly black. They put all the bits of the 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 implore in rendering the year productive of the sustenance... | |
| Henry William J. Senior - 1885 - 208 pages
...charcoal until it is perfectly black. They put all the bits of cake into a bonnet. Every one, blindfolded, 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... | |
| James Aitken Wylie - 1886 - 392 pages
...until it be perfectly black. They put all the bits of the 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 in... | |
| Abram Herbert Lewis - 1892 - 350 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 favor they mean to implore in rendering the year productive. The... | |
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