The book Origins of English History was written by author Elton, Charles Isaac, 1839-1900 Here you can read free online of Origins of English History book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Origins of English History a good or bad book?
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46. Compare Souvestre's account of the Chapel oi Ndtre Dame de la Haine at Tr^guier in Brittany. " Une chapelle d^dik d Notre-Dame de la Haine existe toujours prh de Treguier, et le peuple n'a pas cessk de croire d, la puissance des prieres qui y sont faites. Parfois encore, vers le soir, on voit des ombres honteuses se glisser furtivement vers ce triste kdifice plac'e au haul d'un coteau sans verdure. Ce sont des jeunes pupilles lassSs de la surveil- lance de leurs iuteurs, des veillards jalou...x de la prosperity d'un voisin, des femmes trop rudement froisskes par le despotisme d'un mari, qui viennent Id prier pour la mart de I'objet de leur haine. Trois 'Ave ' dh'otement r'ep'etes, aminent irrevocablement cette mart dans Vannk." Demiers Bretons, i. 92. See as to Cursing-stones in Devon and Ireland, N. & Om 5) v. 223, 363. 1 82 Origins of English History. The manner was that when the corpse was brought out of the house and laid upon the bier a loaf of bread was brought out and delivered to the Sin-eater over the corpse, as also a Mazard-bowl of maple-wood full of beer which he was to drink up, and sixpence in money, in considera- tion whereof he took upon him ipso facto all the sins of the defunct and freed him or her from walking after they were dead."^ 1 Aubrey, in the " Remains of Gentilisme," now in the course of publi- cation by the Folk-lore Society ; Sikes, Brit.
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