Strange survivals : some chapters in the history of man (1892)
Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine), 1834-1924 · London : Methuen & Co. · leaf 71
ascended withhis son to the top of the tower, and bade the boyaffix the cross. The lad walked along the ledge andexclaimed, Father, which of the pinnacles is in themiddle ? When the father heard that, he knew hisson had lost his head. Next moment the boy felland was dashed to pieces. Popular… … Fi^. 13.—Tor OF sriRE, assier. ON GABLES. 61 further concerned with them than to point out thatthe heads carved on towers may, and in some casescertainly do, refer to a hfe sacrificed to secure thetowers stabiHty. An ancestor of the writer in the seventeenth centuryvisited China,and brought home a…
Manners and customs · Superstition
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