Vulgar words in The Golden Bough (Page 1)
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It is for the philosophic student to trace the train of thought which underlies the magician's practice; to draw out the few simple threads of which the tangled skein is composed; to disengage the abstract principles from their concrete applications; in short, to discern the spurious science behind the bastard art.
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For some days thereafter no one may sit on that chair, move it, or knock up against it; for to do so would pain the injured pig or sheep and hinder the cure.
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Legitimately applied they yield science; illegitimately applied they yield magic, the bastard sister of science.
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At Vrigne-aux-Bois one of these harmless buffoons, named Thierry, was accidentally killed by a wad that had been left in a musket of the firing-party.
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At Leipsic the bastards and public women used to make a straw effigy of Death every year at Mid-Lent.
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If that was so, there is more truth than has commonly been supposed in the reproach cast by the Christian fathers that the Aphrodite worshipped by Cinyras was a common whore.
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He was said to have been the bastard son of Jupiter, a Cretan king.
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In some districts of West Prussia the figure made out of the last sheaf is called the Bastard, and a boy is wrapt up in it.
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According to one story, Lityerses was a bastard son of Midas, King of Phrygia, and dwelt at Celaenae.
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Other animal forms assumed by the corn-spirit are the fox, stag, roe, sheep, bear, ass, mouse, quail, stork, swan, and kite.
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Grave writers of antiquity recommended that, if a man be stung by a scorpion, he should sit upon an ass with his face to the tail, or whisper in the animal's ear, "A scorpion has stung me"; in either case, they thought, the pain would be transferred from the man to the ass.
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Balked in her first attempt, the artful hussy pouted and said, "You do not love me true, for you have not told me where your death is; yet I am not angry, but love you with all my heart."