Davidson says that while attempts have been made to connect Sleipnir with hobby horses and steeds with more than four feet that appear in carnivals and processions, but that " a more fruitful resemblance seems to be on the bier on which a dead man is carried in the funeral procession by four bearers ; borne along thus, he may be described as riding on a steed with eight legs.

On the ninth day of Dasara, called Mahanavami, the royal sword is worshipped and is taken on a procession of decorated elephants, camels and horses.

An image of the Goddess Chamundeshwari is placed on a golden mantapa on the back of a decorated elephant and taken on a procession, accompanied by tableaux, dance groups, music bands, decorated elephants, horses and camels.

The procession featured an elephant named Hanno, as a gift to the pope, and forty-two other beasts, including two leopards, a panther, some parrots, turkeys and rare Indian horses.

Her mourning procession included 5, 000 soldiers, 650 police, 4, 000 lanterns, hundreds of scrolls honoring her, and giant wooden horses intended for her use in the afterlife.

There is also a parade on Friday evening: the names of the eighteen who died — Jacques Billon finally died of his wounds a year later — are called out, one after another ; and a historical procession on Sunday evening with more and less 800 people with historical costumes and horses.

The festival gets its name from the bells the horses wear during the procession.

After a brief ceremony a long line of colorfully dressed horses ridden mostly by children in traditional dress leave the shrine and go on a 15 km procession that takes them to Hachimangu Shrine in Morioka.

The procession involves the three kings wearing jeweled red velvet robes and crowns, riding white horses decked with flowers and fine cloth, and they are shaded by colourful parasols, with a retinue of hundreds.

Normally the opening of Ólavsøka starts with a procession of sports people from Tórshavn, city council members, a brass band and people riding on horses.

* Each year on Mother ’ s Day, the so-called Gangolfsritt (“ Gangulphus ’ s Ride ”), a procession of horses through the town, takes place.

Laid on a cannon carriage pulled by eight horses, the coffin was transported in a long procession to the " Mihai Vodă " Church and remained there for 2 more days, so the people could pay their last respects.

These processions were often preceded by notices saying that Queen Sive and her children would make a procession through part of her domain and demanded that the townspeople illuminate their houses and provide their horses, ready saddled, for their use.

Charles Breasted remembers that, before unpacking his bag, he telephoned his bootlegger with a generous order, and almost at once `` the familiar procession of people began milling through our living room at any hour between two P.M. and three A.M. ''.

As the afternoon sped toward evening, the suite saw a steady procession of Paxton aides pass in and out, each with his own special problem.

Listening for hours to his laments that the war and `` Mist Fair's '' poverty afterwards had robbed the mare of many a racing triumph, and to his predictions of greatness for the procession of foals to come, Jenny could look forward to years of conflict with an animal who disliked her intensely and showed it.

*(( Hollinshed )) in his oft fanciful history of England stated that at Alexander III's wedding, a horrible monster, mostly skeleton but with raw flesh, appeared at the end of the procession and caused the wedding to be hurriedly concluded.

On his return to Naples, Nelson was greeted with a triumphal procession led by King Ferdinand IV and Sir William Hamilton and was introduced for only the third time to Sir William's wife Emma, Lady Hamilton, who fainted violently at the meeting, and apparently took several weeks to recover from her injuries.

Later, Lo interrupts Jen's wedding procession, begging her to come away with him.

The family procession was headed by Vespasian and Titus, while Domitian, riding a magnificent white horse, followed with the remaining Flavian relatives.

Leaders of the Jewish resistance were executed in the Forum Romanum, after which the procession closed with religious sacrifices at the Temple of Jupiter.

In her wedding procession, she arrived to Poland with Christian clergymen, among them possibly Jordan, the first Bishop of Poland ( since 968 ).

At this point Athena led a procession accompanying them to their new abode, with the escort now addressing them as " Semnai " ( Venerable Ones ), as they will now be honored by the citizens of Athens and ensure the city's prosperity.

As part of the funeral procession, they carried the bathtub in which Marat had been murdered as well as a shirt stained with Marat ’ s blood.

A dejected procession, numbering some 4, 000 according to most of the sources, such as Hills or Jackson filed out of the Land Port with Queen Isabella's banner at their head, and led by the Spanish Governor, Diego de Salinas, the Spanish garrison, with their three brass cannon, the religious orders, the city council and all those inhabitants who did not wish to take the oath of allegiance to Charles III as asked by the terms of surrender.

The day started with a procession of eight trains setting out from Liverpool.

It shows Ptolemy and his wife or sister Arsinoe III standing beside a seated poet, flanked by figures from the Odyssey and Iliad, with the nine Muses standing above them and a procession of worshippers approaching an altar, believed to represent the Alexandrine Homereion.

Adult women — those who are married or who run a household — would stay home to welcome the Brighid procession, sometimes with an offering of coins or a snack.

Caesar and Cleopatra celebrated their victory with a triumphal procession on the Nile in the spring of 47 BC.

On each day of the holiday other than Shabbat, these are waved in association with the recitation of Hallel in the synagogue, then walked in a procession around the synagogue called the Hoshanot.

* 1982 – During a procession outside the shrine of the Virgin Mary in Fátima, Portugal, security guards overpower Juan Fernandez Krohn before he can attack Pope John Paul II with a bayonet.

A procession with great pomp and circumstance formed from the Sistine Chapel to St. Peter's Basilica, with the newly elected pope borne in the sedia gestatoria.

In Thoinot Arbeau's French dance manual, it is generally a dance for many couples in procession, with the dancers sometimes throwing in ornamentation ( divisions ) of the steps ( Arbeau 1967, 59 – 66 ).

They went in procession from city to city, clad in white garments, with faces hooded, and wearing on their backs a red cross, following a leader who carried a large cross.

Palm Sunday procession, Moscow, with Tsar Alexis of Russia | Alexei Michaelovich ( painting by Vyacheslav Gregorievich Schwarz, 1865 )

Elizabeth's procession to a thanksgiving service at St Paul's Cathedral rivalled that of her coronation as a spectacle.

After a requiem mass in Stuttgart's St. Eberhard church, his funeral procession was followed by protesters ( mainly students ) who wanted his entire legacy remembered-even after his death-especially his former membership in the Nazi Party.

On July 25, Pope Pius XI emerged from the Vatican and entered St. Peter's square in a huge procession witnessed by about 250, 000 persons, thus ending nearly 60 years of papal self-imprisonment within the Vatican.

* July 25 – Pope Pius XI emerges from the Vatican and enters St. Peter's square in a huge procession witnessed by about 250, 000 persons, thus ending nearly 60 years of papal self-imprisonment within the Vatican.

In commemoration of St. Romain, the Archbishops of Rouen were granted the right to set a prisoner free on the day that the reliquary of the saint was carried in procession ( see details at Rouen ).

* The city's residents also conduct an annual procession in honor of St. Rita

His temples held the image of a phallus ; in Lavinium, this was the principal focus for his month-long festival, when according to St. Augustine, the " dishonourable member " was placed " on a little trolley " and taken in procession around the local crossroad shrines, then to the local forum for its crowning by an honourable matron.

It includes a civic procession to Venton Ia, the well of St Ia, and other associated activities.

The entire Academy of St Luke, with numerous ecclesiastics and virtuosi, followed her to her tomb in Sant ' Andrea delle Fratte, and, as at the burial of Raphael, two of her best pictures were carried in procession.

However, the city of Rabat celebrates the traditional Maltese feast on the 19th of March, where in the evening a procession is also held with the statue of St Joseph.

In addition to the above traditions, some groups of Mardi Gras Indians stage their last procession of the season on the Sunday nearest to St. Joseph's Day otherwise known as " Super Sunday ," after which their costumes are dismantled.

* Since about 200 years ago, the Grand Tour, a religious procession takes place every year on the Sunday that follows June 24, feast of St John the Baptist, patron saint of the city.

St Andrews has a separate ceremony known as the gaudie which involves a gowned torchlight procession and singing of the Gaudeamus in memory of a student, John Honey who risked his life in 1800 to save survivors of a shipping accident offshore.

In 1836, some relics that were exhumed from the catacombs of Saint Hippolytus on the Via Tiburtina, then near ( rather than inside ) Rome, were identified with St Valentine ; placed in a casket, and transported to the procession to the high altar for a special Mass dedicated to young people and all those in love.

The Lewis and Clark descendants, along with representatives of St. Louis Lodge # 1, past presidents of the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation, and the Daughters of the American Revolution, carried wreaths and led a formal procession to Lewis ' grave.

For example, at St. Remy, the goliards went to mass in procession each trailing a herring on a string along the ground, the game being to step on the herring in front and keep your own herring from being trod on.

In September 1470 he joined Warwick and Clarence in the invasion of England which restored King Henry to the throne, and on 13 October bore the Sword of State before the King in a procession to St Paul's.

The nickname " Fra Diavolo " came about due to an old Itrano custom: Until early in the twentieth century Itrani boys and girls who had recently recovered from serious illnesses were dressed as monks on the second Sunday after Easter, for a procession in honor of St. Francis of Paola, the patron of sick children.

Notable are William Sowode who cancelled the Corpus Christi procession, St Richard Reynolds who was martyred by Henry VIII and Thomas Dusgate and George Wishart who were both burned as Protestants.

A notable Eucharistic procession is that presided over by the Pope each year in Rome, where it begins at the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran and makes its way to the Basilica of Saint Mary Major, where it concludes with Benediction.

* 23 November St. Columban ( feast of the patron Bobbio and all ' Abbey of Bobbio preceded the night before the procession of the relic in the rite of Transit )

As the newly chosen pope proceeded from the sacristy of St. Peter's Basilica in his sedia gestatoria, the procession stopped three times.