...labouring on our harbour-pier. Must Herbert, Bruce, and Percy hear," They told, how in their convent ri/ll A Saxon princess once did dwell, The lovely Edelfled;...how, of thousand snakes, each one Was changed into a coif of stone, When holy Hilda prayed; Themselves, within their holy bound, Their stony folds hart...

...hear." — They told, how in their convent-cell A Saxon princess once did dwell, The lovely Edelfled.18 And how, of thousand snakes, each one Was changed into a coil of stone,1" When holy Hilda pray'd; Themselves, within their holy bound, Their stony folds had often found....

...neighbourhood of which so many fossil ammonites are found, and of which the popular tradition runs : — " And how, of thousand snakes, each one Was changed into a coil of sione, When holy Hilda prated." spicuous object on the cliffs to the south of the town, was dedicated...

...Herbert, Bruce, and Percy hear." 10 They told, how in their convent-cell A Saxon princess once did dwell, And how, of thousand snakes, each one Was changed into a coil of stone, 15 When holy Hilda prayed ; Themselves, within their holy bound, Their stony folds had often found....

...bewitchment and the evil-eye; and the Ammonites are those charmed snakes of the mediaeval legend, ' That each one Was changed into a coil of stone, When holy Hilda prayed. ' The exact affinities of the Belemnite family have formed a subject of controversy of late years among...

...abbess. She afterwards adorned tho place of her edncation with great maguificence. NOTE K. ' Of thonsand snakes, each one Was changed into a coil of stone, When holy Hilda prayed. . . . . How sea-fowls' pinions fail, As over Whitby s towers they sail.' — P. 45. These two miracles...

..." Marmion," Canto II., Verse 13, where the Whitby nuns exulting told — And how of thousand snakea each one, Was changed into a coil of stone, When holy Hilda prayed. Every visitor to Whitby is invited to buy a petrified snake, and to add to their natural (?) appearance,...

...to this popular superstition in his poem of " Marmion," where the nuns of Whitby exultingly told " How of thousand snakes, each one Was changed into a coil of stone, When holy Hilda pray'd." The visitors to Whitby are still invited to buy a petrified snake, and to add to their natural...

..." Fig. 28. Belemnite Owenii. Ammonite Humphresianus. " Thus Whitby's nuns, exulting, told How that, of thousand snakes, each one Was changed into a coil...stone When holy Hilda prayed : Themselves within their sacred bound Their stony folds had often found." Being very abundant in the liassic beds at Whitby,...

...whence they were caned snake-stones. The legends of the saints invested them with a sacred interest : " Of thousand snakes, each one Was changed into a coil of stone When holy Hilda pray'd." And the prayer, we are told, was not only followed by petrifaction, but by decapitation. There...