Lexicographical Neighbors of Deasiul
Literary usage of Deasiul
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Signs and Symbols Illustrated and Explained: In a Course of Twelve Lectures by George Oliver (1837)
"women with child perform the deasiul thrice round some chapels to procure an easy
delivery. Sick persons do the same round some cairns, to charm back health ..."
2. Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society edited by Charles William Sutton (1909)
"... the mound with their right hands towards the temple, and always performed "The
deasiul" and added a handful of earth or a stone or two to the mound. ..."
3. The Sin-eater and Other Tales by William Sharp (1895)
"In vain, when he came out into the air in the morning did he cry deasiul! and keep
by the sun-way. At night he heard the sea calling in his sleep. ..."
4. The Universal Masonic Library: A Republication in Thirty Volumes of All the by George Oliver (1855)
"15 The circular move- 14 Or the deasiul. " In the Highlands of Scotland," says
Smith (Gal. Ant. p. 38), " women with child perform the Deas'iul thrice round ..."
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