manslayer
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The temporary restrictions laid on a manslayer were probably dictated by a fear of his victim's ghost.
From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia by Frazer, James George, Sir
When the avenger of blood was at his heels, did the manslayer require any violence to urge him on to the asylum where he might lodge secure?
From The Ordinance of Covenanting by Cunningham, John
And so in the midst of these voyces, and in the fury of the flames, he with his wife and the manslayer his sonne, in the yere of Christ 1010. ended his life.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 by Hakluyt, Richard
Impecunious ghosts, hard fate of, 406 Impurity, ceremonial, of manslayer, 229 sq.
From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia by Frazer, James George, Sir
No manslayer then the wide world o’er When Mine and Thine are known no more.
From Poems By the Way by Morris, William
