 Man told me, that they were looking for a Coal under the Root of a Plantain, to put under their Heads that Night, and they should Dream who would be their Husbands : It was to be found that Day, and Hour.  Bentley's Miscellany - Page 93edited by - 1849Full view - About this book
 | Daniel Defoe - 1895 - 318 pages
...knees, as if they were a parcel of weeders, when all the business is to hunt superstitiously after a coal under the root of a plantain, to put under their heads that night, that they may dream who shall be their husbands. In order to shame them out of this silly but guilty... | |
 | Maud Going - 1899 - 426 pages
...he saw about twenty young women, all, apparently, very busy weeding. On making inquiries he was told that they were looking for a coal under the root of a F1G. 98. — "Ribwort" and "ripple-grass." «, rta^.ta, * major; bt Flantafo tanteolata ; c, younf... | |
 | John Brand, Henry Ellis - 1900 - 886 pages
...twenty young women, most of them well habited, on their knees, very busie, as if they had been weeding. A young man told me that they were looking for a coal...should dream who would be their husbands. It was to be that day and hour." The following, however, in part an explanation of this singular search, occurs... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1901 - 394 pages
...knees, very busy, as if they had been weeding. I could not presently learn what the matter was ; at last a young man told me that they were looking for a coal...their husbands. It was to be found that day and hour." In the middle of the last century the ground behind the northwest of Russell Street was occupied by... | |
 | Vincent Stuckey Lean - 1903 - 506 pages
...ORT? CHARMS— LUKE. were a parcel of weeders, when all the business is to hunt superstitiously after a COAL UNDER THE ROOT OF A PLANTAIN to put under their heads that night, that they may dream who shall be their husbands. — De Foe, Life and Adventures of Duncan Campbell,... | |
 | Daniel Defoe, Howard Maynadier - 1903 - 368 pages
...knees, as if they were a parcel of weeders, when all the business is to hunt superstitiously after a coal under the root of a plantain, to put under their heads that night, that they may dream who shall be their husbands. In order to shame them out of this silly but guilty... | |
 | Daniel Defoe, Howard Maynadier - 1903 - 368 pages
...knees, as if they were a parcel of weeders, when all the business is to hunt superstitiously after a coal under the root of a plantain, to put under their heads that night, that they may dream who shall be their husbands. In order to shame them out of this silly but guilty... | |
 | John Brand, Henry Ellis, William Carew Hazlitt - 1905 - 366 pages
...twenty young women, most of them well habited, on their knees, very busy, as if they had been weeding. A young man told me that they were looking for a coal...should dream who would be their husbands. It was to be that day and hour." Coat-Money. — See Davis, Suppl. Glossary, 1881, in v. Cob or Cobbing:- — A... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1905 - 372 pages
...knees, as if they were a parcel of weeders, when all the business is to hunt superstitiously after a coal under the root of a plantain, to put under their heads that night, that they may dream who shall be their husbands. In order to shame them out of this silly but guilty... | |
 | Edward Codrington William Grey - 1905 - 272 pages
...us that, on St. John Baptist's Day, 1694, at midnight, he saw twenty-three young women looking for coal under the root of a plantain, to put under their heads that night, that they might dream who would be their husbands. Hereabouts also lay the " Field of the Forty Footsteps... | |
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