Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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Page 121
... disease which bears his name ; St. Fiacre , whose name is now less known by his shrine than by the hackney - coaches called after him in the seventeenth century . Not to dwell here minutely on an often - treated topic , it will be ...
... disease which bears his name ; St. Fiacre , whose name is now less known by his shrine than by the hackney - coaches called after him in the seventeenth century . Not to dwell here minutely on an often - treated topic , it will be ...
Page 123
... disease . On the other hand , it enables the savage either to " lay " a hurtful spirit in some foreign body , and so get rid of it , or to carry about a useful spirit for his service in a material object , to set it up as a deity for ...
... disease . On the other hand , it enables the savage either to " lay " a hurtful spirit in some foreign body , and so get rid of it , or to carry about a useful spirit for his service in a material object , to set it up as a deity for ...
Page 124
... disease and inspiration among the lower races . It is obviously based on an animistic inter- pretation , most genuine and rational in its proper place in man's intellectual history , of the actual symptoms of the cases . The general ...
... disease and inspiration among the lower races . It is obviously based on an animistic inter- pretation , most genuine and rational in its proper place in man's intellectual history , of the actual symptoms of the cases . The general ...
Page 125
... diseases in accordance with it . Disease being accounted for by attack of spirits , it naturally follows that to get rid of these spirits is the proper means of cure . Thus the practices of the exorcist appear side by side with the ...
... diseases in accordance with it . Disease being accounted for by attack of spirits , it naturally follows that to get rid of these spirits is the proper means of cure . Thus the practices of the exorcist appear side by side with the ...
Page 126
... disease and death are ascribed to more or less defined spiritual influences ; descriptions of a demon working a sorcerer's wicked will by coming slyly behind his victim and hitting him with his club on the back of his neck , and of a ...
... disease and death are ascribed to more or less defined spiritual influences ; descriptions of a demon working a sorcerer's wicked will by coming slyly behind his victim and hitting him with his club on the back of his neck , and of a ...
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