Identifier: lincolncentenni00newy (find matches)
Title: Lincoln centennial number
Year: 1909 (1900s)
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Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Trumbull, Lyman, 1813-1896 Presidents
Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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est?The reverend gentleman carried his headunder one arm, but with the other hegave his late parishioner such a box on theear that he never ventured out againafter dark. Until the middle of the nineteenth cen-tury there were Fire-riders in Bruns-wick, whose function it was to mount ahorse at the outbreak of fire, and witha saucer of salt in hand gallop thricearound the flames, chanting this magicformula: Feuer, du heisse Flamm Dir gebeut Jesus Christ, der wahre Mann, Das du sollst stille stehn Und nicht weiter gehn. Im Namen des Vaters, etc. (Fire, you fervid flame, Christ Jesus, that true Man, demands this same:That you stand still yonderAnd no further wander.In the Name of the Father, etc.) The folk believe that people whose eye-brows meet become Marten at night andoppress the breas-ts of sleepers. They be-lieve in the Werwolf, in the WildHunter, in gnomes and giants; and inthe witches who ride on pitchforks,broomsticks, goats, and swine to theirunhallowed tryst on the Brocken every
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