 | Robert Pitcairn - Trials - 1831 - 228 pages
...of Young Tamlane, Sir Walter Scott remarks, ' This is the popular reason assigned for the desire of Fairies to abstract young children, as substitutes for themselves in this dreadful tribute/ (paying the kane, or teind, to hell.) ' Then I would never tire, Janet, In Elfiih land to dwell ; But... | |
 | Walter Scott - English literature - 1833 - 1104 pages
...Pearson's indictment, and in the Taleo/lhe Young Tamlane, where it n termed, " the paying the kane to hell," or, according to some recitations, "the...themselves in this dreadful tribute. Concerning the mode of irinnmp, or recovering, pi-raons abttracted by the Faines, tradition diners; but the popular opinion,... | |
 | Robert Pitcairn - Criminal courts - 1833 - 488 pages
...of Young Tamlane, Sir Walter Scott remarks, ' This is the popular reason assigned for the desire of Fairies to abstract young children, as substitutes for themselves in this dreadful tribute/ (paying the kane, or teind, to hell.) ' Then I would never tire, Janet, In Elfiih land to dwell ; But... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - England - 1834 - 432 pages
...was rendered horrible by the sacrifice of one or more individuals to the devil every seventh year. This is the popular reason assigned for the desire...substitutes for themselves in this dreadful tribute." Persons could be occasionally recovered from the fairies, but the enterprise was difficult and dangerous,... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1834 - 428 pages
...was rendered horrible by the sacrifice of one or more individuals to the devil every seventh year. This is the popular reason assigned for the desire...substitutes for themselves in this dreadful tribute." Persons could be occasionally recovered from the fairies, but the enterprise was difficult and dangerous,... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1838 - 562 pages
...where it is termed, "the paying the kane to hell," or, according to some recitations, "the tehid," or tenth. This is the popular reason assigned for...opinion, contrary to what may be inferred from the follow ing. tale, supposes, that tlie recovery must be effected within a year and a day, to be held... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1842 - 746 pages
...termed, " the paying the kane to hell," or, according to some recitations, " the teind," or tenth. ITus is the popular reason assigned for the desire of the...recovering, persons abstracted by the Fairies, tradition diners ; but the popular opinion, contrary to what may be inferred from the following tale, supposes,... | |
 | Frederick Edward Hulme - Animals - 1886 - 256 pages
...was rendered horrible by the sacrifice of one or more individuals to the devil every seventh year. This is the popular reason assigned for the desire...substitutes for themselves in this dreadful tribute." Persons, as we have seen, could occasionally be icthe fairies, and if changelings were taken before... | |
 | Walter Scott - Ballads, English - 1902 - 460 pages
...our feet,' and says thryce : — " Horse and hattock, horse and goe, Horse and pellatis, ho, ho ! " ' to hell.' or, according to some recitations, * the...persons abstracted by the Fairies. tradition differs ; bat the popular opinion, coulrarj to what may be inferred from the following tale, supposes, that... | |
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The paying the kane to hell ; ' or, according to some recitations, ' the teind,' or tenth. This is the popular reason, assigned for the desire of the fairies to abstract young children as substitutes for themselves in this dreadful tribute. 