Littell's Living Age, Volume 128Living Age Company Incorporated, 1876 |
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Page 119
... Barbadian superstition about contact with a dead body differs from the St. Croisian . The touch of a dead hand has a wonderful ef- fect upon all swellings and chronic pains . I believe that , even in Barbados , there ought to be no ...
... Barbadian superstition about contact with a dead body differs from the St. Croisian . The touch of a dead hand has a wonderful ef- fect upon all swellings and chronic pains . I believe that , even in Barbados , there ought to be no ...
Page 122
... Barbadian may be pardoned for " hag - bush " huug up over the threshold . thinking the most beauteous of all flow- Or ... Barbados , " or " flowering the magic bush , you can still laugh at his fence , " as it is also called . In St ...
... Barbadian may be pardoned for " hag - bush " huug up over the threshold . thinking the most beauteous of all flow- Or ... Barbados , " or " flowering the magic bush , you can still laugh at his fence , " as it is also called . In St ...
Page 123
... Barbados - it was at keeping guinea- pigs . They were kept by him on a scale so large that he could set up some of his schoolfellows as guinea - pig - keepers . He even ran the risk of keeping them some- times in his desk at school ...
... Barbados - it was at keeping guinea- pigs . They were kept by him on a scale so large that he could set up some of his schoolfellows as guinea - pig - keepers . He even ran the risk of keeping them some- times in his desk at school ...
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