CHAPTER XIII 112-115
The blessing of the waters: a picturesque ceremony--Diving for the cross--Baptising the Jew--The child rain-makers; a charming custom--How I watered the human plants--The peasants celebrate the sowing of the seed.
Opticks : $b or, A treatise of the reflections, refractions, inflections and colours of light
The blessing of the waters: a picturesque ceremony--Diving for the cross--Baptising the Jew--The child rain-makers; a charming custom--How I watered the human plants--The peasants celebrate the sowing of the seed.