M244 Serious significance of the King of the Bean and Twelfth Night.
The custom of "Easter Smacks" can be traced back to the twelfth century, when the practice was for women to beat their husbands on Easter Monday and for husbands to retaliate on their wives on Easter Tuesday.
A similar custom is commonly observed on the same day (the Eve of Twelfth Night, the fifth of January) in the Bocage of Normandy, except that it is the fruit-trees rather than the sowed fields to which the fire is applied.
On the Eve of Twelfth Night everybody should eat pancakes baked of meal and milk or water.
M187 The running and leaping of the Perchten mummers on Twelfth Night.
The oho-harahi or "Great Purification" is a ceremony, which used to be performed in the Japanese capital twice every year, namely on the last days of the sixth and twelfth month.
M246 Fires kindled on Twelfth Night or the Eve of Twelfth Night in England for the sake of the crops.
She had not yet completed her twelfth year, but she was extremely tall and well developed for her age.
And one day of revenge was appointed through all the provinces, to wit, the thirteenth of the twelfth month Adar.
And you shall aid them that they may kill those who had prepared themselves to kill them, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is called Adar.
I believe the people of Medina have no other times of public rejoicing than the regular feast-days, except the Mouled el Naby or Prophet's birth-day, on the twelfth of the month of Rabya el Thany.
I could decipher no date prior to the sixth century of the Hedjra (the twelfth of our era); but the greater part of them contain mere prayers, without either the name of the deceased, or a date.
As for the ancient religious military orders, which were chiefly founded in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, such as Malta, the Teutonic, the Knights Templars, etc.
William himself never dreamed of denying the divine authority of the Pope in spiritual matters; no one in all Christendom in the eleventh and twelfth centuries questioned that at Rome was a court of appeal higher than the courts of kings.
This form of mole, as far as our own observation goes, seldom attains any considerable size, rarely exceeding four inches in length, and is usually expelled between the eighth and twelfth week.
Abortions usually occur from the eighth to the twelfth week, a period which is decidedly the least dangerous for such accidents.
Although these have no concern with our Grouse-shooting season, they almost totally disappear on the twelfth of August.
In Norfolk it is met with from May, the twelfth of that month being called 'Godwit day,' by the gunners, although it is almost unknown up north at that season.
This sixth chapter is like the twelfthof Genesis and the introduction of Abraham upon the stage of sacred history.
Here, then, it was that within twelve months the Apostle Peter makes a similar claim on his Master's behalf, in a discourse which extends from the twelfth to the twenty-sixth verse of the third chapter.
In the third century we find that there were still only seven deacons in Rome, though there were forty-six presbyters, a number which was retained down to the twelfth century in the seven cardinal deacons of that Church.
In the twelfth century the number of cardinal deacons was fixed at fourteen, at which it has ever since remained.
Also, by the twelfth year, the tongue, when the jaws are closed, protrudes from the open space between the incisors and molars.
On inspection, however, it will be seen that the irregularities of outline are less prominent even than at the twelfth year.
She was in such a state she could neither think nor pray, but she sat like a stone, and worked away at the arm of the twelfth shirt.
So she worked on to get the shirts finished, but another year was at an end, and she had the twelfth shirt finished except one arm, when she was obliged to take to her bed, and a beautiful girl was born.
They were collected in the middle of the twelfth century by Saemund Sigfusson (died 1133).
They are nomadic robbers, and their arrival in these countries dates from the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
The Friesian had a literature of its own as early at least as the twelfth century, if not earlier.
College was built, and to several suppressed priories which were annexed to the College, reaching back to the twelfth century.
It comprehends all the books of the New Testament except the Apocalypse, and is assigned in date to the twelfth or thirteenth century.
Terence, of the eleventh ortwelfth century, which also belonged to Ebner, was bought from Payne and Foss, at the same time, for ten guineas.
Mr. Coxe, who assented to their belonging to the twelfth century.
Pentateuch, of the twelfth century, which had been brought to England by a native of Samaria.
At the end of Bankside, looking towards the church of St. Saviour, stood Winchester House, the London residence of the Bishop of Winchester since the twelfth century.
The history of the bridge only opens with the beginning of the twelfth century.
This tower, half built and square topped, belonged to a structure begun in the twelfth century, half monastery, half church, erected by the Templars as a stronghold.
Its two great memorials of the olden times were the great Cloth Hall, in the Grand' Place, and the Cathedral of Saint Martin, both dating from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
It should be remembered, however, that the milk is not so good after the twelfth or thirteenth month, nor quite so good under the third.
This period, it is well known, cannot be fixed to any particular age, but varies from the fifth to the twelfth month.
The 6th, the Twelfth marched from the Monocacy to near Harpers Ferry.
The Twelfth and Fourth reached the camp at Cedar Creek with a supply train on the forenoon after the battle.
Our stay here afforded the boys of the Twelfth an opportunity to walk over the old battle ground of the Winchester battle fought on our side under Gen.
The men were put on picket and not a man of the Twelfth deserted.
It was perhaps while we were at Camp Russell that one day a merchant tailor came into camp from Wheeling, to see the officers of the Twelfth with a view to taking orders for new uniforms.
When the Twelfth was transferred to the Army of the James, Gen.
Sigel ordered the Twelfthto start in the advance with 250 head of cattle in their charge for the soldiers to subsist upon.
The members of the Twelfth generally, regretted very much to part with their brave old commander, who was familiarly known in his command as the "Old Grey Eagle," as he was a general favorite with them.
But it was here that the Twelfth won its eagle, and Col.
The Eighty-Seventh had been in the same command with the Twelfth for about a year.
Curtis was ordered in connection with the other troops at this place to form the Twelfth in line of battle on Bolivar Heights, just back of Harpers Ferry, to protect it from the assault expected to be made by Early.
The next day theTwelfth went on the skirmish line.
Tomline and Rokewode, Monastic and Social Life in theTwelfth Century.
Giraldus Cambrensis, Archdeacon of Brecknock at the close of the twelfth century, describes a dinner with the Prior of Canterbury where were a variety of wines such as piment and claret, besides mead, &c.
This account, as given by Nennius, is supplemented by Geoffrey of Monmouth, a British historian, or rather romancer, of the twelfth century.
The miracles of St. Cuthbert, as related by Reginald of Durham, give an insight to their private life in the earlier part of the twelfth century.
In the collection of ordinances for the Royal Household we have an account of the ceremony of wasselling, as was practised at Court on Twelfth Night in the reign of Henry VII.
Remove one from the tenth wire to add to the eleven on the eleventh wire, afterwards the remaining ball on the twelfth wire, saying, twice twelve are twenty-four.
At last on the twelfth day Apollo appealed to the gods to end the barbarous outrage.
For the moment the king of the gods was absent in Aethiopia; when he returned to Olympus on the twelfth day she would win him over.
It is well enough to say that in unscientific ages, like the twelfth century for instance, the burner of books and the tormentor of those who wrote them, did not feel either that he was doing an injustice to man or a mischief to truth.
The popular belief is that this is the unquiet spirit of a transgressing nun of the twelfth century, but some affirm it to be that of a lady brutally beheaded in the seventeenth century.
In the twelfth century it was known as the Herlething, the banks of the Wye having been the scene of the most frequent chases.
On the south side of Twelfth street, stretching from Folsom to Harrison, and running half a block south.
