The Sin Eater And Other Tales And Episodes

Author : Fiona MacLeod
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230401966
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Sin-Eater and Other Tales and Episodes written by Fiona MacLeod and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ... The Sin-Eater. Sin. Taste this breads this substance; tell me Is it bread or flesh? The Senses approach. The Smell. Its smell Is the smell of bread. Sin. Touch, come. Why tremble? Say what Tj this thou touchest 1 The Touch. Bread. Sin. Sight, declare what thou discernest In this object. The Sight. Bread alone. Calderon: Los Encantos de la Culpa. A Wet wind out of the south mazed and moaned through the sea-mist that hung over the Ross. In all the bays and creeks was a continuous weary lapping of water. There was no Other sound anywhere. Thus was it at daybreak; it was thus at noon; thus was it now in the darkening of the day. A confused thrusting and falling of sounds through the silence betokened the hour of the setting. Curlews wailed in the mist; on the seething limpet-covered rocks the skuas and terns screamed, or uttered hoarse rasping cries. Ever and again the prolonged note of the oystercatcher shrilled against the air, as an echo flying blindly along a blank wall of cliff. Out of weedy places, wherein the tide sobbed with long gurgling moans, came at intervals the barking of a seal. Inland by the hamlet of Contullich, there is a reedy tarn called the Loch-a-chaoruinn.1 By the shores of this mournful water a man moved. It was a slow, weary walk that of the man Neil Ross. He had come from Duninch, thirty miles to the eastward, and had not rested foot, nor eaten, nor had word of man or woman since his going west an hour after dawn. 1 Contullich i. e., Ceann-nan-tulaich, "the end of the hillocks." Loch-a-chaoruinn means the loch of the rowantrees. At the bend of the loch nearest the clachan he came upon an old woman carrying peat. To his reiterated question as to where he was, and if the tarn were Feur-Lochan above Fionnaphort, that...