[7] A dish of rice or wheat flour, with honey and raisins, which is brought to the church on the celebration of memorial masses.
[8] Elder.
[9] Upper garment in Little Russia.
[10] Eight-stringed musical instrument.
[11] “To pour out fear,” is done with us in case of fear; when it is desired to know what caused it, melted lead or wax is poured into water and the object whose form it assumes is the one which frightened the sick person; after this, the fear departs. Sónvashnitza is brewed for giddiness, and pain in the bowels. To this end, a bit of stump is burned, thrown into a jug, and turned upside down into a bowl filled with water, which is placed on the patient’s stomach: after an incantation, he is given a spoonful of this water to drink.
[12] Three inches and a half.
THE DEVIL’S WAGER
BY WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY[Notes]
It was the hour of the night when there be none stirring save church-yard ghosts—when all doors are closed except the gates of graves, and all eyes shut but the eyes of wicked men.
When there is no sound on the earth except the ticking of the grasshopper, or the croaking of obscene frogs in the pool.