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Dickins, Bruce (1915).Runic and Heroic Poems of the Old Teutonic Peoples. Cambridge University Press. Faulkes, Anthony (Trans.) (1995).Edda. Everyman.ISBN 0-4608-7616-3 Larrington, Carolyne (Trans.) (1999).The Poetic Edda. Oxford World's Classics.ISBN 0192839462 ...
H. Price, an Oxford philosopher and parapsychologist, held that once an idea has been formed, it "is no longer wholly under the control of the consciousness which gave it birth" but may operate independently on the minds of other people or on physical objects. It is contended that a meme...
them think that at times they feel the cold breath of the invisible visitors…” (The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries by Walter Evans-Wentz; Pub. Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1911; p.218) He goes on to note ‘Every parish in the uncorrupted parts of Brittany has its own Ankou...
However, this etymology is speculative at best, as the ‘kou’ suffix as a sound can have a number of meanings within the scope of the historical linguistics of the celtic languages. Indeed, the 1821 Breton-French dictionary of Jean-François-Marie-Maurice-Agatha Le Gonidec tellingly uses ...
" whereas "feeling" basically means "the sense of touch in the looser acceptance of the term, in which it includes all physical sensibility not referable to the special senses of sight, hearing, taste, and smell" (The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary 1971, s.v. "emo- ...