Books with author Baring-Gould S. (Sabine)

Yorkshire OdditiesSabine Baring-Gould, Anglican priest, hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist and eclectic scholar (1834 – 1924)This ebook presents «Yorkshire Oddities», from Sabine Baring-Gould. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected.Table of Contents- About This Book- Preface- Preface To Revised Edition- The Ghost Of Trinity Church, York- Peter Priestly, The Wakefield Parish Clerk- Prophet Wroe- Bishop-dyke Pond- Snowden Dunhill, The Convict- James Naylor, The Quaker- Old Three Laps- Christopher Pivett- David Turton, Musician At Horbury- John Bartendale, The Piper- Blind Jack Of Knaresborough- Peg Pennyworth- Peter Barker, The Blind Joiner Of Hampswaite- The White House- Jemmy Hirst- The Tragedy Of Beningbrough Hall- A Yorkshire Butcher- The One-pound Note- Mr. Wikes, Of Leaseholme- The Rev. Mr. Carter, Parson-publican- Job Senior, The Hermit Of Rumbold's Moor- Nancy Nicholson, The Termagant- The Wooden Bell Of Ripon- Old John Mealy-face- The Boggart Of Hellen-pot- Jonathan Martin, The Incendiary Of York Minster- Brother Jucundus- Mary Bateman, Witch And Murderess

The author (Sabine Baring-Gould, a parson of the Church of England, an archaeologist, a historian, and a prolific author best known for writing the hymn Onward Christian Soldiers) takes a typically nineteenth century approach to the mythology; methodical, rational and almost mechanistic. He details the legend in many permutations as it exists in a diversity of cultures and includes sensational chapters with case studies of cannibals, grave desecrators and blood fetishists, which have a connection to lycanthropy. Also included is an extended treatment of the case of Giles de Rais, the notorious confederate of Joan of Arc who was convicted and executed for necrosadistic crimes. (Jacketless library hardcover.)

Curious Myths of the Middle AgesSabine Baring Gould, english anglican priest, hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist and eclectic scholar (1834-1924)This ebook presents «Curious Myths of the Middle Ages», from Sabine Baring Gould. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected.Table of Contents- About This Book- The Wandering Jew- Prestor John- The Divining Rod- The Seven Sleepers Of Ephesus- William Tell- The Dog Gellert- Tailed Men- Antichrist And Pope Joan- The Man In The Moon- The Crafty Hare- The Mountain Of Venus- S Patrick's Purgatory- The Terrestrial Paradise- Sgeorge- Sursula And The Eleven Thousand Virgins- The Legend Of The Cross- 22. Adv. Marcion. Iii. 22: "est Enim Littera, Græcorum Thau, Nostra Autem Τ, Species Crucis Quam Portendebant Futuram In Frontibus Nostris Apud Veram Et Catholicam Hierusalem."- Schamir- The Piper Of Hameln- Bishop Hatto- Melusina- The Fortunate Isles- Swan Maidens- The Knight Of The Swan- The Sangreal- Theophilus- Appendix A. The Wandering Jew- Appendix B. Mountain Of Venus- Appendix C.pre Christian Crosses

I SHALL never forget the walk I took one night in Vienne, after having accomplished the examination of an unknown Druidical relic, the Pierre labie, at La Rondelle, near Champigni. I had learned of the existence of this cromlech only on my arrival at Champigni in the afternoon, and I had started to visit the curiosity without calculating the time it would take me to reach it and to return. Suffice it to say that I discovered the venerable pile of grey stones as the sun set, and that I expended the last lights of evening in planning and sketching. I then turned my face homeward. My walk of about ten miles had wearied me, coming at the end of a long day’s posting, and I had lamed myself in scrambling over some stones to the Gaulish relic.

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