The Slavonic year began in March, at which time there was formerly, it is believed, a great festival, not only in Slavonic but also in Teutonic countries.
The beginning of August was a great festival in Celtic lands, and the echoes of it, Rhys remarks, have not yet died out in Wales.
Thus Sedna and the other evil spirits are at last driven away, and next day a great festival is celebrated by old and young in honour of the event.
Amongst many of the aboriginal tribes of China, a great festival is celebrated in the third month of every year.
This fair may very well be a direct descendant of a great festival held in honour of Anaitis or Astarte.
Now," he proceeds, "we are holding a great festival in your honour.
The Indians of Alabama also held a great festival at their harvest in July.
Then at a great festival he is taken from his cage, paraded about with marked consideration, and afterwards killed and eaten.
Thus he tells us that the Acagchemem tribe adored the great buzzard, and that once a year they celebrated a great festival called Panes or bird-feast in its honour.
Torch, name of great festival at the Syrian Hierapolis, i.
The Sea Dyaks of Borneo celebrate a great festival in honour of the dead at irregular intervals, it may be one or more years after the death of a particular person.
This bliaut she wears with pride on great festival days, and in it, despite the envious hopes of her daughters and daughters-in-law, she expects at last to be buried.
But now at a great festival, when you enter the special banqueting tent you are met by two handsome varlets.
The lamps and candles are so poor that only rarely, when there is a great festivalor imperative work to be performed, do persons remain about many hours after sunset.
At a great festival he overcame and slew a wrestler from a far country who was named Jimúta, and he received many gifts.
The Acagchemem tribe adored the great buzzard, and once a year they celebrated a great festival called Panes or bird-feast in its honour.
Among the Letts of South Livonia and Curland the summer solstice is the occasion of a great festival of flowers, at which the people sing songs with the constant refrain of lihgo, lihgo.
Once a year, at a great festival called Panes or bird-feast, they carried one of these birds in procession to their chief temple, which seems to have been merely an unroofed enclosure of stakes.
The distribution of the ribs is the occasion of a great festival, and it is followed some time afterwards by a still greater feast, for which extensive preparations are made long beforehand.
Sidenote: Use made of the skulls and bones at a great festival.
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