id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 52165 Gerard, E. (Emily) Transylvanian Superstitions From: The Nineteenth Century (Vol. 18), London, July-December 1885, pp. 130-150 .txt text/plain 10651 420 68 old German customs and beliefs brought hither seven hundred years ago by evil spirit of that day is in its fullest force, and in many districts abnormal number of feast-days, to almost each of which peculiar customs On New Year's Day it is customary for the Roumenian to interrogate his frequently kept by occult meetings taking place at night in lonely The feast itself is the great day to beware of witches, to counteract and the man who has courage to conjure up the evil spirit will be sure bird plays a great part in Roumenian poetry, and is frequently supposed man die without a candle--a favour the Roumenian durst not refuse to his the form of a man; but this, in the minds of the Roumenians, who now Ascension is the day on which this ceremony takes place in a village of The evil death away to carry; [Footnote 16: Also believed by the Roumenians.] ./cache/52165.txt ./txt/52165.txt