Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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Page 112
... called brahmadasyu , who has been ever since the terror of the whole country , and is the most common village deity in Kharakpur.5 Toward the close of the last century there were two brahmans , out of whose house a man had wrongfully ...
... called brahmadasyu , who has been ever since the terror of the whole country , and is the most common village deity in Kharakpur.5 Toward the close of the last century there were two brahmans , out of whose house a man had wrongfully ...
Page 119
... called a " devil gambling for cash , " and in this shape receives the prayers and offerings of confirmed gamblers , his votaries . The spirits of San - kea Ta - te , and Chang - yuen - sze go to partake of the offerings set out in their ...
... called a " devil gambling for cash , " and in this shape receives the prayers and offerings of confirmed gamblers , his votaries . The spirits of San - kea Ta - te , and Chang - yuen - sze go to partake of the offerings set out in their ...
Page 121
... called after him in the seventeenth century . Not to dwell here minutely on an often - treated topic , it will be enough to touch on two particular points . First , as to the direct historical suc- cession of the Christian saint to the ...
... called after him in the seventeenth century . Not to dwell here minutely on an often - treated topic , it will be enough to touch on two particular points . First , as to the direct historical suc- cession of the Christian saint to the ...
Page 138
... called madmen " larvati , " " larvarum pleni , " full of ghosts . Patients possessed by demons stared and foamed , and the spirits spoke from within them by their voices . The craft of the exorcist was well known . As for oracular ...
... called madmen " larvati , " " larvarum pleni , " full of ghosts . Patients possessed by demons stared and foamed , and the spirits spoke from within them by their voices . The craft of the exorcist was well known . As for oracular ...
Page 143
... called them feitiço or " charm , " a word derived from Latin factitius , in the sense of " magically artful . " Modern French and English adopted this word from the Portuguese as fétiche , fetish , although curiously enough both ...
... called them feitiço or " charm , " a word derived from Latin factitius , in the sense of " magically artful . " Modern French and English adopted this word from the Portuguese as fétiche , fetish , although curiously enough both ...
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