 Besides the prophetic powers, ascribed to the gypsies in most European countries, the Scottish peasants believe them possessed of the power of throwing upon bystanders a spell, to fascinate their eyes, and cause them to see the thing that is not. Thus,...  Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society - Page 40by Gypsy Lore Society - 1889Full view - About this book
 | Walter Scott - 1806 - 512 pages
...of being left in pawn for the reckoning. Or that the gypsies' glamour'd gang, fyc. — P. 158. v. 4. Besides the prophetic powers, ascribed to the gypsies...in most European countries, the Scottish peasants beheve them possessed of the power of throwing upon bystanders a spell, to fascinate their eyes, and... | |
 | John Colin Dunlop - Fiction - 1814 - 446 pages
...dwarf, a harp player, or a stag, as the interest of his master required ; or, at least, threw on the bystanders a spell to fascinate their eyes, and cause them to see the thing that was not. On one occasion he made an expedition to Rome, entered the king's palace in the shape of an... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1814 - 718 pages
...harp player, or a stag, a* the intrest of his master required; or, at least, threw on the byatenders a spell to fascinate their eyes, and cause them to see the thing that was not. OB OIK occasion he made an expedition to Rome, PIN tered the king's place in the shape of... | |
 | Scottish border - 1821 - 504 pages
...being left in pawn for the reckoning. Or that the gypsies' glamour' d gang, §c. — P. 160. v. 4. Besides the prophetic powers ascribed to the gypsies...the thing that is not. Thus, in the old ballad of Johnie Faa, the elopement of the Countess of Cassillis, with a gypsey leader, is imputed to fascination... | |
 | Scott - Ballads, Scots - 1821 - 516 pages
...of being left in pawn for the reckoning. Or that the gypsies' glamour J gang, f^c. — P. 160. v. 4. Besides the prophetic powers ascribed to the gypsies...believe them possessed of the power of throwing upon by-stnnders a spell, to fascinate their eyes, and cause them to see the thing that is not. Thus, in... | |
 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 1857 - 342 pages
...gipsies' glamour'd gang, $c. — P. 14, v. 2. BESIDES the prophetic powers ascribed to the gipsies in most European countries, the Scottish peasants...see the thing that is not. Thus in the old ballad of Johnie Faa, the elopement of the Countess of Cassillis, with a gipsy leader, is imputed to fascination... | |
 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 1857 - 332 pages
...left in pawn for the reckoning. NOTE B. Or that the gipsies' glamour' d gang, fyc. — P. 14, v. 2. them to see the thing that is not. Thus in the old ballad of Johnie Faa, the elopement of the Countess of Cassillis, with a gipsy leader, is imputed to fascination... | |
 | Stephen Denison Peet, J. O. Kinnaman - America - 1896 - 666 pages
...shall be totally different from the reality" ; "or," as he says, when speaking of the Gipsies, it was " the power of throwing upon bystanders a spell, to...eyes, and cause them to see the thing that is not." "They could do wonders by the power of the imagination, their fancy binding that of others," remarks... | |
 | Francis Hindes Groome - Fairy tales - 1899 - 394 pages
...content myself with this footnote from Scott's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (ed. 1873, iv. 102): — 'Besides the prophetic powers ascribed to the Gypsies...of the power of throwing upon bystanders a spell, and causing them to see the thing that is not. . . . The receipt to prevent the operation of these... | |
 | Thomas Finlayson Henderson - Ballads, English - 1902 - 428 pages
...being left in pawn for the reckoning. Or that the gypsies' glamour' d gang, etc. — St. xxii. 1. 3. Besides the prophetic powers, ascribed to the gypsies...the thing that is not. Thus, in the old ballad of 'Johnie Faa,' the elopement of the Countess of Cassillis, with a gypsy leader, is imputed to fascination... | |
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