Bible

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

• attestation: Sometimes a passage from the Bible is made use of in charming, as, for instance, in the case of bleeding (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter IV: Manx Folklore)

  "Sometimes a passage from the Bible is made use of in charming, as, for instance, in the case of bleeding."

• attestation: I was told this first in the south by a clergyman's wife, who, finding a woman in the parish reading the chapter in question on that day, asked the reason for her fixing on that particular portion of (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter IV: Manx Folklore)

  "I was told this first in the south by a clergyman's wife, who, finding a woman in the parish reading the chapter in question on that day, asked the reason for her fixing on that particular portion of the Bible."

• attestation: 288) was also mentioned in his Bible: this display of ready knowledge on my part made a deep impression on his mind (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter V: The Fenodyree and his Friends)

  "I pointed out to him that a fenodyree (see p. 288) was also mentioned in his Bible: this display of ready knowledge on my part made a deep impression on his mind."

• attestation: Now, as to the other class of people, namely, those who object to folklore in every shape and form, they may be roughly distinguished into difTerent groups, such as those to whom folklore is an abomin (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter X: Difficulties of the Folklorist)

  "Now, as to the other class of people, namely, those who object to folklore in every shape and form, they may be roughly distinguished into difTerent groups, such as those to whom folklore is an abomination, because they hold that it is opposed to the Bible, and those who regard it as too trivial to demand the attention of any serious person."