The Handbook of FolkloreFolklore society, 1914 - Всего страниц: 364 |
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Africa Ainu amulets ancient animals beasts belief belong Abere blood body bride brother Bushongo carried ceremonies charms chief child clan common cult customs dance dead death deity demons disease divination E. B. Tylor enquire especially evil exogamous father feast festival fire folk-tales folklore forbidden funeral ghosts give gods ground household human husband Indians Islands J. G. Frazer killed king land legends living magical magico-religious marriage matrilineal moon mother myths native Note objects observed offered omens performed persons phratries plants practice prayer priest prohibitions proverbs Questionary religious rites ritual sacred sacrifice says season secret shaman Shropshire sister social group society sometimes songs soul spirit stones stories supposed taboo temple things tions Torres Straits totem tree tribe Veddas village W. H. R. Rivers West Africa wife witch witchcraft wizard woman women words worship Yoruba
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Стр. 32 - it gives a kind of shriekes or groanes, that may be heard a mile off, as if it were the genius of the oake lamenting. E. Wyld, Esq., hath heard it severall times.
Стр. 55 - The antiquity of the tabu was equal to the other branches of that superstition of which it formed so component a part, and its application was both general and particular, occasional and permanent. The idols, temples, persons, and names of the king, and members of the reigning family ; the persons of the priests ; canoes belonging to the gods; houses, clothes, and mats of the king and . priests ; and the heads of men who were the devotees of any particular idol, — were always tabu, or sacred. The...
Стр. 34 - The Gauchos think that the Indians consider the tree as the god itself; but it seems far more probable that they regard it as the altar. The only cause which I can imagine for this choice, is its being a landmark in a dangerous passage. The Sierra de la Ventana is visible at an immense distance; and a Gaucho told me that he was once riding with an Indian a few miles to the north of...
Стр. 83 - Black people do not worship all Amatongo indifferently, that is, all the dead of their tribe. Speaking generally, the head of each house is worshipped by the children of that house ; for they do not know the ancients who are dead, nor their laudgiving names, nor their names. But their father whom they knew is the head by whom they begin and end in their prayer, for they know him best, and his love for his children ; they remember his kindness to them whilst he was living ; they compare his treatment...
Стр. 89 - And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burnt their children in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.
Стр. 33 - Shortly after passing the first spring we came in sight of a famous tree, which the Indians reverence as the altar of Walleechu. It is situated on a high part of the plain, and hence is a landmark visible at a great distance. As soon as a tribe of Indians come in sight of it, they offer their adorations by loud shouts. The tree itself is low, much branched, and thorny : just above the root it has a diameter of about three feet.
Стр. 146 - They are as venomous as the poison of a serpent, even like the deaf adder, that stoppeth her ears; 5 Which refuseth to hear the voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely.
Стр. 296 - believed ") by more or less primitive folk. There is, first, the soul, or the separable personality of the living man or other being...
Стр. 32 - ... the tree fell as a propitiation to the spirit which had been dislodged so roughly, pleading at the same time the orders of the strangers for the work.
Стр. 65 - by the river Sang Sir Lancelot. She left the web, she left the loom, She made three paces thro' the room, She saw the water-lily bloom, She saw the helmet and the plume, She look'd down to Camelot.