...— this was very strange, impossible indeed, though in the legends of the saints we read that— ' Of a thousand snakes, each one Was changed into a coil of stone When holy Hilda prayed ' nor, you may he sure, did they forget to add that all these snakes were decapitated. It would never...

...precibus D. Hilda; concretes." — Leland. " Then Whitby's nuns, exulting told How, &c And how, of thousand snakes, each one Was changed into a coil of stone, When holy Hilda pray'd, Themselves within their holy bound, Their stony folds had often found. They told, how sea-fowl's...

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

...precibus D. Hilda- concretes. " — Leland. " Then Whitby's nuns, exulting told How, &c And how, of thousand snakes, each one Was changed into a coil of stone, When holy Hilda pray'd, Themselves within their holy bound, Their stony folds had often found. They told, how sea-fowl's...

...her prayers, and then converting into stone:— " And how the nuns of Whitby told, How of countless snakes, each one Was changed into a coil of stone— When holy Hilda pray'd. Themselves within their sacred bound Their stony folds had often found." lead to the conclusion...

...her prayers, and then converting into stone : — " And how the nuns of Whitby told, How of countless snakes, each one Was changed into a coil of stone — When holy Hilda pray'd. Themselves within their sacred bound » Their stony folds had often found." It was not until...

...legends ; those of Whitby are well known (see lAgn. 7).* Thus Whitby's nuns exulting told — How that of thousand snakes, each one Was changed into a coil...When holy Hilda prayed : Themselves, within their sacred bound, Their stony folds had often found. SCOTT'S Marmion. The Nautili were the contemporaries...

...Catholic saints they were considered by them as possessing a sacred character : — " Of these and snakes, each one Was changed into a coil of stone When holy Hilda prayed." And in addition to this petrifying process, one of decapitation is said to have been effected ; hence...

...called snake-stones, and petrified snakes, and stories are yet in existence of which ancient tales — " told How of a thousand snakes each one Was changed into a coil of stone ; " while to the broken fragments of the star-fishes of the older world belong legends to which Sir...

...are a kind of shell called by geologists Ammonites. Sir Walter Scott alludes to this in Marmion. " of thousand snakes, each one Was changed into a coil of stone When holy Hilda prayed." She was held in much veneration in her own neighbourhood, as is evident from four Churches in Durham...