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Etruscan Roman remains in popular tradition (1892)

Leland, Charles Godfrey, 1824-1903 · London, T. F. Unwin · leaf 115

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ense in believing that there was a jolly, mischievous,/rt;;»7/rtr goblin who lived inthe fire, or haunted the fireplace, who teased the girls and bothered the boys, and wasso sociable. All of these were like themselves, and within their natural compre- FAN 10. 99 hension, and they would believe in… … ETRUSCAN RURAL DEITIES. Madonnas, and the agony of tortured saints with no end of fasting and prayer,are not congenial to us, nor did healthy humanity ever accept them in lovingearnest, as it did the old heathen gods. The whole history of the Middle Ages—or lOO ETRUSCAN ROMAN REMAINS. you may…

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