Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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Page 113
... demons . The old fear even now continues to vouch for the old belief . Happily for man's anticipation of death , and for the treatment of the sick and aged , thoughts of horror and hatred do not preponderate in ideas of deified ...
... demons . The old fear even now continues to vouch for the old belief . Happily for man's anticipation of death , and for the treatment of the sick and aged , thoughts of horror and hatred do not preponderate in ideas of deified ...
Page 124
... demon in whose personality the patient believes so im- plicitly that he often imagines a personal name for it , which it can declare when it speaks in its own voice and character through his organs of speech ; at last , quitting the ...
... demon in whose personality the patient believes so im- plicitly that he often imagines a personal name for it , which it can declare when it speaks in its own voice and character through his organs of speech ; at last , quitting the ...
Page 125
... demons , nor to draw an exact line between obsession by a demon outside and possession by a demon inside , nor between the condition of the demon- tormented patient and the demon - actuated doctor , seer , or priest . In a word , the ...
... demons , nor to draw an exact line between obsession by a demon outside and possession by a demon inside , nor between the condition of the demon- tormented patient and the demon - actuated doctor , seer , or priest . In a word , the ...
Page 126
... demon has in the minds of the lower races , to notice the Orang Laut of this district placing thorns and brush in the paths leading to a part where small - pox had broken out , to keep the demons off ; just as the Khonds of Orissa try ...
... demon has in the minds of the lower races , to notice the Orang Laut of this district placing thorns and brush in the paths leading to a part where small - pox had broken out , to keep the demons off ; just as the Khonds of Orissa try ...
Page 128
... demons are sent to scratch and tear people into convulsions and hysterics , to torment poor wretches as with barbed hooks , or to twist and knot inside them till they die writhing in agony . But mad- men are to be treated with great ...
... demons are sent to scratch and tear people into convulsions and hysterics , to torment poor wretches as with barbed hooks , or to twist and knot inside them till they die writhing in agony . But mad- men are to be treated with great ...
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