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... pretending to be gypsies, I cr wandering in the habit or ozrm of Egypians-, or pie- :. tending to ha ve ;kill in physiognomy, palmistry. or ?? crafty BciCex, or pretendingg to fell fortunes, or using any 7 subtle craft to deceive and impose on any of his Majestys ...

Published: Wednesday 18 October 1809
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2568 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

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... °nvl en you ' re indiQ,d | V.' ! hell-bred fiend, p. ° Qn beneath VS^'™ 0 scaith, the dead. For nane o' a' the core, In palmistry had siccan lore; 44 In Jenny's bonny hand are more 44 Lines o' guid luck, 44 Than I ha'e read for tomonds four, 44 In—nature's ...

Published: Saturday 01 August 1812
Newspaper: The Scots Magazine
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Miscellaneous | Words: 564 | Page: 57 | Tags: none

CURIOUS REMAINS OF POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS IN FORFARSHIRE. EDITOR, Dundee, as you know, was the last place in ..

... but there is generally some great characteristic difference between the magicians of one country and those of another. The palmistry of India has now spread all over Europe ; the divinations among the ancient Romans, by the inspection of the entrails of ...

Published: Sunday 01 February 1818
Newspaper: The Scots Magazine
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1334 | Page: 21 | Tags: none

HOBBY-HORSES

... hero. 1 was much amused with this species of divination, which was novelty to me, and appeared at least as rational as palmistry, cutting cards, and shaking coffee-grounds; the common materials to which cunning pretended sybils have recourse for the ...

Published: Tuesday 01 June 1824
Newspaper: The Scots Magazine
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 6176 | Page: 36 | Tags: none

kit Astride of extemeire parilLei are *NA:meted ?rhea Me Parliamentary Al roisters are hot allowed to discharge ..

... of extemeire parilLei are *NA:meted ?rhea Me Parliamentary Al roisters are hot allowed to discharge all the duties qf Me Palmistry al Their own discretion. To this I answer, in the first lilac that the is a hardship in so tie parishes does not admit of ...

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... Encyclopaedia of Geography. The Bohemians. —This name is generally applied to those wanderers who profess to tell fortunes palmistry, und whose talents arc dancing, singing, and thieving. Pasquin makes their origin ascend to the year 1427, when twelve penancers ...

Published: Thursday 20 November 1834
Newspaper: Perthshire Advertiser
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 1612 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

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... justice to Inland. first gem of the see. with the oft-repeated rulogiuus of her high mountains. and peen valleys, and fine palmistry. It was • very fine thing, we have little doubt, to the Radicals of Nottingham to listen to the torrent of blarney eloq•renee ...

Published: Thursday 14 April 1836
Newspaper: Fifeshire Journal
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 144 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE MURDER IN FREDERICK STREET

... telling for- tunes by casting nativities, Cupid's noce-gays, dumb cakes, love's cordial, nine keys, physiognomy, cards, dice, palmistry, ring and olive branctes, watches, chains, &c., together with full directions for choosing a husband, making the dumb speak ...

DUXKELD

... hoc omne should all down together to the limbo of vanity with the dreams of alchemy, the elixir vitae, the j catholicon, palmistry, witchcraft, astrology, mystery. [ fable, and other forgotten impostures of earlier days. ...

Published: Thursday 25 May 1843
Newspaper: Perthshire Advertiser
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 886 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

CORN LAWS.-COUNTY OF MD-LOTHIAN. A very numerous meeting of the landlords, tawdry, and others connected with ..

... I appreheed that the strength and solidity of our army was uerived from ammo' our agricultural peamintry; and if these palmistry wore amieneed and metered to he extinguished, we &Wald become • teeble satioa Weed. (Applause.; Thee look at oar Carmen—wbore ...

Published: Saturday 17 February 1844
Newspaper: Witness (Edinburgh)
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5644 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

THE WITNESS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1845

... hail. hummer, goer British sal whin the fact wan discovered, was t lota apply The nostrums at a toy (erf% told that palmistry le Calabria only waiting for halms. and that as they neared sruald beret forth. They imposed by this wwwwst ; left code, ...

Published: Saturday 22 February 1845
Newspaper: Witness (Edinburgh)
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2514 | Page: 2 | Tags: none