Popular belief ascribes to Tânsên the power of stopping the river Jumna in its course.
Duida, though lower than the height assigned to it by popular belief, is however the most prominent point of the whole group of mountains that separate the basin of the Lower Orinoco from that of the Amazon.
Greece in order to adjust them to popular belief, so that it is scarcely correct to class him as a critic of myth.
Popular belief in medieval times regarded the gods and goddesses of antiquity as of diabolic origin, or at least as 'pagans' who had been relegated to Hell on the advent of Christianity.
Adventitious circumstances, such as racial feeling and idiosyncrasy, the deliberate or accidental fusion of two or more myths by a priesthood or by force of popular belief or acquiescence.
Again, much of the worship of rivers is connected with the propitiation of the water-snakes, demons and goblins, with which in popular belief many of them are infested.
Another curious function is, in popular belief, allotted to Khwaja Khizr, that of haunting markets in the early morning and fixing the rates of grain, which he also protects from the Evil Eye.
The finger nails of the Rakshasas, as those of Europeans in popular belief, are a deadly poison, and the touch of them produces insensibility, or even death.
It is a popular belief in Wales that horses have the peculiar 'gift' of seeing spectres, and carriage horses have been known to display every sign of the utmost terror when the occupants of the carriage could see no cause for alarm.
In most parts of England there is a popular belief in a spectral dog, which is generally described as 'large, shaggy, and black, with long ears and tail.
There exists a popular belief in Cornwall, that no kind of snake is ever found near the "Ashen-tree," and that a branch of the Ash will prevent a snake from coming near a person.
There is a popular belief in Russia, that anyone drinking a draught of water in which this plant of the marshes has been steeped, will be exempt from attacks by bears.
Nericat, Andrea de, popular belief in Syria on the fall of aerolites, 123.
Supported by popular belief in various countries, the latter meaning soon became general.
Sidenote: Saxo on the far North] It was to be expected that the countries on the north of Hafsbotn should become fairylands in popular belief, Jotunheimr and Risaland, inhabited by giants.
Popular belief in the Trojan descent of the English Kings, 309 note.
Popular belief in the middle ages of the Trojan descent of the French kings, 309.
Yet if we take a wide view the case is reversed; we are surprised, not at the unintelligibility of popular belief, but at its simplicity, and at the frequency with which we can discern the natural process of unsystematic conjecture.
Some notion of the prevalence of a popular belief in the omens to be derived from dreams may be obtained from the fact that dream books are still enough in demand to warrant their publication.
Perhaps they also had an inkling that he in reality stood on the ground of popular belief, even if he went beyond it.
As we have shown, this is a common principle of popular belief.
The juice has, in popular belief, many valuable properties.
In popular belief, however, the custom is explained by the death pollution attaching to all the family cooking vessels, which, if of metal, are purified with fire.
It is in vain that we look into the works of travellers for information on the subject of popular belief in Iceland.
In accordance with these laws, we find in most countries a popular belief in different classes of beings distinct from men, and from the higher orders of divinities.
John de Plano Carpini and Marco Polo, though they acknowledged the existence of a Christian monarch in Abyssinia, yet stoutly maintained as well that the Prester John of popular belief reigned in splendor somewhere in the dim Orient.
According to popular belief, he still "drees his weird" in Fairy Land, and is one day expected to revisit earth.
Having demolished William Tell, I proceed to the destruction of another article of popular belief.
It is one of the painful duties of the antiquarian to dispel many a popular belief, and to probe the groundlessness of many an historical statement.
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