The universal practice of closing the eyes of the dead may be thought to have originated in the desire that he might be prevented from seeing his way. Sabine Baring-Gould Read Quote
In art, S. Bridget is usually represented with her perpetual flame as a symbol, sometimes with a column of fire, said to have been seen above her head when she took the veil. Sabine Baring-Gould Read Quote
I went to Iceland in 1861 and went over nearly every bit of the ground made famous by the adventures of Grettir. Sabine Baring-Gould Read Quote
In winter, the Icelanders told the tales of the brave men of old in their families, and so the tradition was handed on from father to son, the same stories told every winter, till all the particulars became well known. Sabine Baring-Gould Read Quote
About two hundred or two hundred and fifty years after the death of Grettir, his history was committed to writing, and then it became fixed – nothing further was added to it, and we have his story after having travelled down over two hundred years as a tradition. Sabine Baring-Gould Read Quote
Cyder was anciently the main drink of the country people in the West of England. Sabine Baring-Gould Read Quote
In North Germany, a troublesome ghost is bagged, and the bag emptied in some lone spot or in the garden of a neighbour against whom a grudge is entertained. Sabine Baring-Gould Read Quote
It is somewhat remarkable that Cornwall has produced no musical genius of any note, and yet the Cornishman is akin to the Welshman and the Irishman. Sabine Baring-Gould Read Quote
Brittany can hardly claim the attention of the tourist as a superlatively beautiful country. The way in which trees are clipped and tortured out of shape disfigures the sylvan landscape; and of mountain scenery, there is none. Sabine Baring-Gould Read Quote
No man need go blindly to destruction, for God has given him guidance and power of seeing whither he goes. Sabine Baring-Gould Read Quote
