 | James Pettit Andrews - 1806 - 394 pages
...their white hairs down to the grave in peace. Hear Scot's description of the mythology of a nurse : ' In our childhood our mother's maids have so terrified us with an ugly devil, having homes on his head, fire in his mouth, and a taile in his breech ; eyes like a bason, fanges like a... | |
 | Walter Scott - Demonology - 1833 - 360 pages
...thousands, especially when Robin Goodfellow kept such a coil in the country. In our childhood, our mothers' maids have so terrified us with an ugly devil having horns on his head, fire in his mouth* an? a tail at his breech ; eyes like a basin, fangs like a dog, claws like a bear, a skin like a negro*... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1834 - 566 pages
...h>-a ven, earth, or water above or under the earth.' ' Our mothers' maids,' observes Reginald Scot, ' have so terrified us with an ugly devil, having horns on his head, fier hi his mouth, and a tail in his breach, eies like a bacon, fangs like a dog, claws like a beare,... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1835 - 610 pages
...Vol. I. pp. 101, 102. Page 163. The Northern Phantom 's banished. " In our childhood, our mothers' maids have so terrified us with an ugly devil having horns on his head, fire in his mouth, and a tail in his breech, eyes like a lynx, fangs like a dog, claws like a bear, a skin like a niger, and a voice... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1835 - 568 pages
...Vol. I. pp. 101, 102. Page ] 63. The Northern Phantom 's banished. " In our childhood, our mothers' maids have so terrified us with an ugly devil having horns on his head, fire in his mouth, and a tail in his breech, eyes like a lynx, fangs like a dog, claws like a bear, a skin like a niger, and a voice... | |
 | Walter Scott - Demonology - 1836 - 356 pages
...thousands, especially when Robin Goodfellow kept such a coil in the country. In our childhood, our mothers' maids have so terrified us with an ugly devil having...his breech ; eyes like a basin, fangs like a dog, clawslike a bear, a skin like a negro, and a voice roaring like a lion, whereby we start and are afraid... | |
 | John Brand - Christian antiquities - 1841 - 356 pages
..."Discovery of Witchcraft," edit. 1665, p. 85, has the following curious passage on this suhject : " In our childhood, our mother's maids have so terrified...having horns on his head, fire in his mouth, and a tail in his hreech, eyes like a hason, fangs like a dog, claws like a hear, a skin like a niger, and a voyce... | |
 | Child rearing - 1845 - 356 pages
...thousands, especially when Robin Goodfellow kept such a coil in the country. In our childhood, our mothers' maids have so terrified us with an ugly devil having horns on his hend, fire in his mouth, and a tail at his breech ; eyes like a basin, fangs like a dog, claws like... | |
 | Peter Jones (fict.name.) - 1848 - 228 pages
...yet unformed but growing sceptic have been deluded into any permanent fear, by the apparition of " an ugly devil having horns on his head, fire in his mouth, and a tail at his breech." These grosser superstitions belonged to .the past ; and had already become a matter of rather antiquarian... | |
 | Walter Scott - Demonology - 1848 - 356 pages
...thousands, especially when Robin Goodfellow kept such a coil in the country. In our childhood, our mothers' maids have so terrified us with an ugly devil having horns on his he^d, fire in his mouth, an? a tail at his breech ; eyes like a basin, fangs like a dog, claws like... | |
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