 This respect arises from a strange belief, handed down from time immemorial, that the Storks are human beings in that form, men from some distant islands, who, at certain seasons of the year, assume the shape of these birds, that they may visit Barbary,...  Travels of Ali Bey [pseud.] in Morocco, Tripoli, Cyprus, Egypt, Arabia ... - Page 80de Ali Bey - 1816 - 470 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1816 - 686 pages
...arise from their belief that the storks are human beings in that form ; for they hold that storks ate men from some distant islands, who at certain seasons of the year assume the shape of these birds that they may visit Barbary, and return at a certain time to their... | |
 | James Lyon (of Fairhaven, Vermont) - 486 pages
...86 ; part iv. lines 19, 20, 37, 38, 56, 57. 81. STOIIKS. The inhabitants of Fez believe storks to be men from some distant islands, who at certain seasons of the year assume the shape of these birds, that they may visit Barbary, and return at a certain time to their... | |
 | Josiah Conder - 1830 - 376 pages
...these poor devils of their entertainment. " Fez has an hospital which is very richly endowed, but it is used only for the treatment of lunatics. It is very...they resume their human form till the next season. Por this reason, it would be considered as a crime to kill one of these birds. They tell thousands... | |
 | Edward Stanley (bishop of Norwich) - 1835 - 324 pages
...a strange belief, handed down from time immemorial, that the Storks are human beings in that form, men from some distant islands, who, at certain seasons of the year, assume the shape of these birds, that they may visit Barbary, and return at a fixed time to their own... | |
 | Francis Orpen Morris - 1855 - 482 pages
...a strange helief, handed down from time immemorial, that the Storks are human beings in that form, men from some distant islands, who, at certain seasons of the year, assume the shape of these birds, that they may visit Barbary, and return at a fixed time to their own... | |
 | Thing - 1857 - 408 pages
...a strange belief, handed down from time immemorial, that the storks are human beings in that form, men from some distant islands, who, at certain seasons of the year, assume the shape of these birds, that they may visit Barbary, and return at a fixed time to their own... | |
 | Oliver Optic - 1870 - 974 pages
...and storks, and of burying them when dead. The belief is common there that the 'storks are men from distant islands, who, at certain seasons of the year, take the shape of birds to visit the continent. In due time they are supposed to return to their islands again, if their strength... | |
 | Ontario. Council of Public Instruction - 1871 - 506 pages
...a strange belief, handed down from time immemorial, that the Storks are human beings in that form, men from some distant islands, who, at certain seasons of the year, assume the shape of these birds, that they may visit Barbary, and return at a fixed time to their own... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1816 - 618 pages
...This may arise from their belief that the storks are human beings in that form ; for they hold that storks are men from some distant islands, who at certain seasons of the year assume the shape of these birds that they may visit Barbary, and return at a certain time to their... | |
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