Strange survivals : some chapters in the history of man (1892)
Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine), 1834-1924 · London : Methuen & Co. · leaf 132
nal, and is in all about 2 feet 6 inches high.In Furness Abbey, among the ruins, has been foundanother, with five cups in it; at Calder Abbey an-other, with sixteen such cups for oil and wicks. AtYork is another with six such fire-cups, and at Stock-holm another with the same number, in a… … 122 STRANGE SURVIVALS. cavities quite blackened with the oil and smoke. Insome of the examples there are traces of a metal pinaround which the wick was twisted. In addition to these, in several churches are to befound lamp-niches. Some have chimne}s or flues,which pass upwards, in some cases…
Manners and customs · Superstition
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