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id: 12261
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  The _Tocandeira_ ants not only bite, but are also armed with a sting like the wasp; but the pain felt from it is more violent.


id: 12261
type: WORK_OF_ART
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  Ethnological Report on the Stseelis and Skaulits Tribes of the Halokmelem Division of the Salish of British Columbia


# bib

id: 17050
title: Strange Pages from Family Papers
author: Thiselton-Dyer, T. F. (Thomas Firminger)
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  year 1590, Sir Henry, on account of age, resigned his office, having White." The story generally told is that one of the daughters of Sir state for a year and a day, during which time Sir Robert kept open country houses have long been said to be troubled with mysterious One room in Clayton Old Hall, Lancashire, has for years past occupied the house, and writes that ''in that year on Feast Day, being Having discovered that the Earl was in love with a certain lady and "they entered the house armed with a dead man''s hand, with a lighted tales which have long held a prominent place in family traditions. "tradition tells us this estate was given to an old family who came Sir John, accompanying the present with these words: "The family shall house, of which the following occurrence was told: ''A young lady, the


id: 21471
title: Mountain Moggy: The Stoning of the Witch
author: Kingston, William Henry Giles
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  MOUNTAIN MOGGY; THE STONING OF THE WITCH, BY WILLIAM H G KINGSTON. MOUNTAIN MOGGY; THE STONING OF THE WITCH, BY WILLIAM H G KINGSTON. "Old Polly Forty Rags, the witch, came from America," said William. "You throw stones at Mountain Moggy!" she said in an incredulous tone. sorrow-stricken soul I have never met in my life than poor Old Moggy "Then, Frank, you are the young gentleman who saved Old Moggy''s life," "Oh, to look after the poor old woman," said Frank, "I understood from fellow-creature of life; indeed, he knew not even now whether Old Moggy "It''s like your father''s son to come and visit the poor and the When the Doctor had gone Anna took a seat by Moggy''s side, and Willie "I don''t doubt you, old shipmate," said Frank. "My dear children," said Dr Morgan, who had entered soon after Moggy


id: 3623
title: The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion
author: Frazer, James George
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  grove there grew a certain tree round which at any time of the day, festival, the tree is carried into the house with great ceremony to supposing that in very early times the old Latin kings personated a believe that at death the soul, "the little entire man or woman" power of life and death over the man, woman, or child who ate the putting the man-god to death instead of allowing him to die of old man-god dies what we call a natural death, it means, according to like those by which, in so many places, the life of the man-god has a tree and by a person, so in the harvest customs the corn-spirit is Believing the rice to be animated by a soul like that of a man, the the Wild Man. The OX appears as a representative of the corn-spirit in other parts corn-spirit''s representative, were taken to the king''s house and


id: 1271
title: Bygone Beliefs: Being a Series of Excursions in the Byways of Thought
author: Redgrove, H. Stanley (Herbert Stanley)
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  to a belief in God. But man felt the need of unity, and crude animism, not, the stars were still symbols of spiritual forces operative on man. Philosopher''s Stone--the concentrated Essence of Nature,--as man''s soul "Man''s nature," writes CORNELIUS AGRIPPA, "_is the most complete Image Man, taught the old mystical philosophers, is threefold in nature, of cure is of great force unto this day; for I have seen a certain man neatly calls it, and perhaps man''s earliest view of natural phenomena, between spirit and matter AGRIPPA places the stars: modern thought devils--spirits supposed to be superior to man in certain powers, but In the metals the alchemists saw symbols of man in the according to the alchemists, are the powers and life of nature in writes one alchemist, "is the Spirit of Truth, which the world cannot of Crates_ says that copper, like man, has a spirit, soul, and body,"


id: 12261
author: Frazer, James George
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  bonfires on certain days of the year, dancing round them, leaping over [European custom of kindling bonfires on certain days of the year, to kindle bonfires on certain days of the year, and to dance round or witches."[393] The custom of kindling fires on the eve of May Day Midsummer Eve or Midsummer Day, which the church has dedicated to St. John the Baptist; the bonfires, the torches, and the burning wheels of In Wales the midsummer fires were kindled on St. John''s Eve and on St. John''s Day. Three or nine different kinds of wood and charred faggots bonfires were kindled on Midsummer Eve.[513] On the same day people in great bonfire is kindled on St. John''s Eve, and that the young people till New Year''s Day to kindle a light with or it is carried out to the

title:
  Balder the Beautiful, Volume I. A Study in Magic and Religion: the Golden Bough, Part VII., The Fire-Festivals of Europe and the Doctrine of the External Soul


id: 34744
title: The White Man''s Foot
author: Allen, Grant
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  "Bring out some more food, Kea," the dark old Hawaiian half whispered to introduced to us the dark old man as her Uncle Kalaua, a Hawaiian chief "To make observations!" Kea answered with a faint thrill of solemn awe hard-looking old man has offered up in his time to Pélé--ay, and I dare door, and Kalaua, Kea, Frank, and myself, mounting our careering steeds eye, like a feather in the flame, our fathers said, Pélé would surely Not a living soul remained upon the spot save Frank and myself, and Kea They set my leg that very night, and Frank and Kalaua in turns sat up to For the next week, Frank, Kalaua, and Kea in turn each bore their fair "That looks like a bridal veil, Kea," I said at last, regarding it Kalaua means to make Kea leap into the crater as a bride to Pélé''s


id: 35690
title: Omens and Superstitions of Southern India
author: Thurston, Edgar
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  object on the morning of New Year''s Day, as the effects of omens If, when a person is leaving his house, the head or feet strike boiled in milk is offered to propitiate the Sun God. Before the ceremony of walking through fire [28] (burning embers) at Images of snakes are offered to the deity on days of eclipse inmate, the village is said to be deserted, and sacrifices are offered waved round the heads of all the children of the house, taken to a illness or bear children, takes a big pot of water, and, placing it on Viramushtis are said, in former days, to have performed a ceremony the temple, and must be offered by the person who has taken the vow, places round a house, will keep snakes away. A new pot, full of water, is placed in the milk-house, ceremony, "offerings are made at the temples, and, on the day of the


id: 38379
title: An Address to Men of Science Calling Upon Them to Stand Forward and Vindicate the Truth....
author: Carlile, Richard
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  useful instruction ''in Chemistry and the laws of Nature? submit this sketch to the judgment of Men of Science, with an idea when addressed to the Chemist, or to the Man of Science, but between science and superstition in the mind of Sir Isaac Newton than In support of my assertion, that Men of Science have hitherto crouched I may be told that the Man of Science had much better pursue his studies disgraceful laws, and shall the Man of Science be silent, and see all The science of Chemistry has so far explored the properties of matter himself that there is no truth that any Man of Science will write, The Man of Science ought not to look at, or respect, any thing but the of Science, either from having their minds tinged with superstition, this science alone is so far infinite as to make the life of man a


id: 47053
title: Domestic folk-lore
author: Thiselton-Dyer, T. F. (Thomas Firminger)
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  Popular Traditions, Proverbial Sayings, Superstitions, and Customs Seasons and Days propitious to Marriage--Superstitions connected Value of Superstitions--Lucky Days and Hours of Birth--The Value of Superstitions--Lucky Days and Hours of Birth--The According to another idea, children born open-handed are said to be paid as to which hand a child uses when taking up for the first time curious superstition is related by Mrs. Latham, in the "Folk-lore similar notion prevails, young people look upon his right hand as the Thus, the Devonshire young ladies have a fancy that on St. Valentine''s Day they can, if they wish, make certain of their future. Friday has been held a good day of the week for love omens, and in bearing to his resting-place some person not dead at the time of the may be said to hold an important place in the folk-lore of death, so well-known piece of folk-lore, most persons wear new clothes on


id: 42921
title: A World of Wonders, with Anecdotes and Opinions Concerning Popular Superstitions
author: nan
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  consequently formed the ground-work of a popular error in France. mules, than the incontestible fact that certain men, even in modern times, themselves, in different times and countries, as endowed with the natural is the history of the Jews from the days of Titus to the present time. until a year later, 1314, the martyrdom of the Templars having taken place "In the month of June, 1806, a child of four years old having fallen following circumstances as having taken place at Joinville, in the having seen a phoenix, though for ages, a popular superstition attached to given to the use of the right hand, though existing from the times of time in Italy, women possessed of the power attributed by the poets to In establishing between man and woman certain relations and differences, this unfortunate young man, having recovered in the course of the night


id: 52165
author: Gerard, E. (Emily)
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  old German customs and beliefs brought hither seven hundred years ago by evil spirit of that day is in its fullest force, and in many districts abnormal number of feast-days, to almost each of which peculiar customs On New Year''s Day it is customary for the Roumenian to interrogate his frequently kept by occult meetings taking place at night in lonely The feast itself is the great day to beware of witches, to counteract and the man who has courage to conjure up the evil spirit will be sure bird plays a great part in Roumenian poetry, and is frequently supposed man die without a candle--a favour the Roumenian durst not refuse to his the form of a man; but this, in the minds of the Roumenians, who now Ascension is the day on which this ceremony takes place in a village of The evil death away to carry; [Footnote 16: Also believed by the Roumenians.]

title:
  Transylvanian Superstitions From: The Nineteenth Century (Vol. 18), London, July-December 1885, pp. 130-150


