Custom and MythHarper & Brothers, 1885 - 312 páginas |
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... ancient Etruria they were looked on as magical , for we sometimes see their points set , as amulets , in the gold of Etruscan necklaces . In Perugia the arrow- heads are still sold as charms . All educated people , of course , have long ...
... ancient Etruria they were looked on as magical , for we sometimes see their points set , as amulets , in the gold of Etruscan necklaces . In Perugia the arrow- heads are still sold as charms . All educated people , of course , have long ...
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... ancient fetich stone . Not to speak , here , of our own religious traditions , the old vein of savage rite and belief is found very near the surface of ancient Greek religion . It needs but some stress of circumstance , something ...
... ancient fetich stone . Not to speak , here , of our own religious traditions , the old vein of savage rite and belief is found very near the surface of ancient Greek religion . It needs but some stress of circumstance , something ...
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... first discovered ; it may be Zulu- land , or West Africa , or ancient Rome , or Homeric Greece , or Palestine . In all these , and many other regions , the sneeze was welcomed as an auspicious omen THE METHOD OF FOLKLORE . 13.
... first discovered ; it may be Zulu- land , or West Africa , or ancient Rome , or Homeric Greece , or Palestine . In all these , and many other regions , the sneeze was welcomed as an auspicious omen THE METHOD OF FOLKLORE . 13.
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... ancient Peru had her own Maiden , her Harvest Goddess . Here it is easy to trace the natural idea at the basis of the superstitious practice which links the shores of the Pacific with our own northern coast . Just as a portion of the ...
... ancient Peru had her own Maiden , her Harvest Goddess . Here it is easy to trace the natural idea at the basis of the superstitious practice which links the shores of the Pacific with our own northern coast . Just as a portion of the ...
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... ancient Greece , and show how the serpent - dances , the habit of smearing the body with clay , and other odd rites of the mysteries , were common to Hellenic religion , and to the religion of African , Australian , and American tribes ...
... ancient Greece , and show how the serpent - dances , the habit of smearing the body with clay , and other odd rites of the mysteries , were common to Hellenic religion , and to the religion of African , Australian , and American tribes ...
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Página 185 - My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.
Página 150 - Therewith the slayer of Argos gave me the plant that he had plucked from the ground, and he showed me the growth thereof. It was black at the root, but the flower was like to milk. Moly the gods call it, but it is hard for mortal men to dig; howbeit with the gods all things are possible.