In some of the cities these processions are a sickening spectacle.
Hallowe'en fires in Buchan to burn the witches; processions with torches at Hallowe'en in the Braemar Highlands.
This practice originated in theprocessions formerly made on that day by the peasants with lighted torches of straw, to drive away, as they called it, the bad air from the earth.
We may suppose, though we are not told, that the straw masks which they wear in these processions are intended to hide their faces from the gaze of men and the rays of the sun.
What sort of a human being was the bishop who walked in solemn processions behind chanting choristers to and from his Cathedral?
I have described the St. Patrick's Day annualprocessions in Liverpool.
The Orange processions in Liverpool were often the occasion of bloodshed, for in them they carried guns, hatchets, and other deadly weapons, as if they were always prepared for deeds of violence.
Through the streets passed long processionsof giants, devils, princes, clowns, warriors, and crowds of certain figures whom I always have the misfortune to encounter the world over.
From one end of the avenues to the other pass two processions of people, carriages, and horsemen, going in opposite directions.
Mean and pitiful they look in their twentieth-century travellers' costumes, hurrying along that avenue where once defiled so many processions of gods and goddesses.
And thus, funeral processions passed to and fro without ceasing through the cornfields that separate the Nile from the desert.
A black cap of peculiar shape worn by the clergy in outdoor processions and services and sometimes in Church.
Usually worn in processions by Priest or Bishop and is symbolical of rule.
And Mr. Punch once more expresses his hope that the first Act of next Session will be one to regulate meetings and processions in and about London, whereby orderly citizens may enjoy their rights undisturbed.
Even in the splendours and apparent triumph of the jubilee processions it was perceived by the eyes of hostile statesmen that the day of faith was past.
The only amusement the labourer could aim at was found for him, in rich processions and gorgeous ceremony, by the priest.
He appeared in the processions of the jubilee, dressed in the robes of the Empire, with two swords, and the globe of sovereignty carried before him.
Never since the old times of the Feasts of Fools and the gaudy processions of the Carnival had there been such a riotous jubilee as inaugurated the Restoration.
In the lower town there was like illumination, and out upon the river trailed longprocessions of light.
All day long had there been masses and processions on land.
Who knows whether buffalo-driver or bandit may not ere now have seen processions of these Poseidonian phantoms, bearing laurels and chaunting hymns on the spot where once they fell each on the other's neck to weep?
He ordered each church to restore the other its relics, which was done with solemn ceremony, processions marching along the road between the villages, and making the exchange midway, a large black cross since marking the spot.
By decision of the grand council of 1875 the abolition of all religious corporations was next enacted, and all religious ceremonies and processions in public streets and squares forbidden.
There were alsoprocessions and choirs of angels, etc.
Also in 1875, the jubilee processions organized by the episcopate without obtaining the royal Placet were inhibited.
Passing by on nights of storm wayfarers saw most frightful visions--the sports and processions of spectres issuing forth from the old well of the one time inner garden.
Following the processions of the honoured oiran, liberal will be the saké offered at the tea houses.
The daimyo[u] went up in long processions to condole with the suzerain at the death of a rich aunt, and congratulate him on the possessions seized.
The processions which preceded, as well as the tournaments themselves, were most elaborate.
In those days, there were great tournaments and grand processions of kings, with hundreds of servants and followers, all splendidly dressed in brilliant colors.
AElian, for example, has a story of a pious cock, which made a point of walking gratefully in the processions that took place in honour of AEsculapius; and he does not tell it in the spirit of the author of the Jackdaw of Rheims.
In sacred processions and sacrifices not only the old man and the old woman, nor the poor and lowly, but The thick-legged drudge that sways her at the mill, and household slaves and hirelings are uplifted by joy and triumph.
In spite of processions and ikons and the chanting of priest and deacons, in spite of everything, the cholera raged on just as furiously as ever, if not more furiously.
All the religious processions of the old Mediterranean peoples took place in the open.
Every year they held solemn processions in honor of Dionysos the God of the wine.
These processions vary but very little, except that I thought there was more of preparation, banners, &c.
The government and municipal authorities attend at the Cathedral on state and feast days, forming processions to and from the church.
The days of graduation were always town holidays, and at the graduation processions the officials of the city walked with the University authorities.
The processions were arranged for Corpus Christi Day, for Christmas, for Harvest Thanksgivings, when the civic fathers requested the clergy to pray for rain, or when a great papal official visited the town.
VII), probably the best which any cavern afforded, and here we observe great processionsof mammals superposed upon each other, like the records of a palimpsest, as if such a surface was so rare that it was visited again and again.
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