Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art and Custom, Volume 2Murray, 1903 - Animism |
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Page 108
... Possession and Obsession as causes of Disease and Oracle - inspiration - Fetishism - Disease - spirits embodied -Ghost attached to remains of Corpse - Fetish produced by a Spirit embodied in , attached to , or operating through , an ...
... Possession and Obsession as causes of Disease and Oracle - inspiration - Fetishism - Disease - spirits embodied -Ghost attached to remains of Corpse - Fetish produced by a Spirit embodied in , attached to , or operating through , an ...
Page 110
... Catholic priest , who is 1 See Taylor , ' New Zealand , ' p . 134 ; J. G. Müller , Amerikanische Urre- ligionen , ' p . 171 . 2 Philo Jud . de Gigantibus , iv . cautioned in the rubric concerning the examination of a possessed 110 ANIMISM .
... Catholic priest , who is 1 See Taylor , ' New Zealand , ' p . 134 ; J. G. Müller , Amerikanische Urre- ligionen , ' p . 171 . 2 Philo Jud . de Gigantibus , iv . cautioned in the rubric concerning the examination of a possessed 110 ANIMISM .
Page 111
... possessed patient , not to believe the demon if he pretends to be the soul of some saint or deceased person , or a good angel ( neque ei credatur , si dæmon simularet se esse ani- mam alicujus Sancti , vel defuncti , vel Angelum bonum ) ...
... possessed patient , not to believe the demon if he pretends to be the soul of some saint or deceased person , or a good angel ( neque ei credatur , si dæmon simularet se esse ani- mam alicujus Sancti , vel defuncti , vel Angelum bonum ) ...
Page 124
... possessed man , tossed and shaken in fever , pained and wrenched as though some live creature were tearing or twisting him ... possession and obsession , which has been for ages , and still remains , the dominant theory of disease and ...
... possessed man , tossed and shaken in fever , pained and wrenched as though some live creature were tearing or twisting him ... possession and obsession , which has been for ages , and still remains , the dominant theory of disease and ...
Page 125
... possession - theory is not merely known to us by the statements of those who describe 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 ...
... possession - theory is not merely known to us by the statements of those who describe 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 ...
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Page 389 - I desired mercy and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.' ' I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats . . . Wash you, make you clean; put away
Page 78 - a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparell'd in celestial light, The glory and the
Page 376 - Through want of strength, thou strong and bright god, have I gone wrong; have mercy, almighty, have mercy! .... Whenever we men, O Varuna, commit an offence before the heavenly host, whenever we break the law through thoughtlessness, have mercy, almighty, have mercy!
Page 288 - O thou, that with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the God Of this new world.' It is no exaggeration to say, with Sir William Jones, that one
Page 98 - I have not done fraud to men. I have not changed the measures of the country. I have not injured the images of the gods. I have not taken scraps of the bandages of the dead. I have not committed adultery. I have not withheld milk from the mouths of sucklings. I have not hunted wild animals
Page 255 - at finding, on a close examination, that the characters of all the Pagan deities, male and female, melt into each other and at last into one or two; for it seems a well-founded opinion, that the whole crowd of gods and goddesses in ancient Rome, and modern
Page 84 - all the great chiefs of the earth ; He maketh to rise up from their thrones, all the kings of the nations. All of them shall accost thee, and shall say unto thee : Art thou, even thou too, become weak as we ? Art thou made like unto us
Page 191 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth, Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep.'* As
Page 330 - In the beginning there was a pair of twins, two spirits, each of a peculiar activity. These are the good and the base in thought, word, and deed. Choose one of these two spirits. Be good, not base
Page 154 - Mr. Darwin saw two Malay women in Keeling Island who held a wooden spoon dressed in clothes like a doll; this spoon had been carried to the grave of a dead man, and becoming inspired at full moon, in fact lunatic, it danced about convulsively like a table or a hat at a modern spirit-seance.