Killing the god (cont'd) The golden boughMacmillan and Company, limited, 1900 |
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... touch them , and by catching the disease may relieve the sufferer . 3 In the western district of the island of Timor , when men or women are making long and tiring journeys , they fan themselves with leafy branches , which they ...
... touch them , and by catching the disease may relieve the sufferer . 3 In the western district of the island of Timor , when men or women are making long and tiring journeys , they fan themselves with leafy branches , which they ...
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... touch or eat such a chicken . In Morocco most wealthy Moors keep a wild boar in their stables , in order that the jinn and evil spirits may be diverted from the horses and enter into the boar.5 Amongst the Burghers or Badagas of the ...
... touch or eat such a chicken . In Morocco most wealthy Moors keep a wild boar in their stables , in order that the jinn and evil spirits may be diverted from the horses and enter into the boar.5 Amongst the Burghers or Badagas of the ...
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... touching the corpse . They also cast into the sea the garments they had worn while they were performing the last offices to the dead . Having finished their ablutions , they gathered a few pieces of coral from the bottom of the sea ...
... touching the corpse . They also cast into the sea the garments they had worn while they were performing the last offices to the dead . Having finished their ablutions , they gathered a few pieces of coral from the bottom of the sea ...
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... touch your warts with as many little stones as you have warts ; then wrap the stones in an ivy leaf , and throw them away in a thoroughfare . Whoever picks them up will get the warts , and you will be rid of them . A similar cure for ...
... touch your warts with as many little stones as you have warts ; then wrap the stones in an ivy leaf , and throw them away in a thoroughfare . Whoever picks them up will get the warts , and you will be rid of them . A similar cure for ...
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... touch , to move to tears or laughter the sullen gods . The plague still raged , and at the very moment when the actors were playing their best in the circus beside the Tiber , the yellow river rose in angry flood and drove players and ...
... touch , to move to tears or laughter the sullen gods . The plague still raged , and at the very moment when the actors were playing their best in the circus beside the Tiber , the yellow river rose in angry flood and drove players and ...
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Seite 187 - And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews ! And they spit upon him, and took the reed and smote him on the head.
Seite 43 - Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices, to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive...
Seite 176 - And in every province whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing ; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
Seite 262 - They kindle a fire, and dress a repast of eggs and milk in the consistence of a custard. They knead a cake of oatmeal, which is toasted at the embers against a stone. After the custard is eaten up, they divide the cake...
Seite 187 - Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it. 25 Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children. 26 Then released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.
Seite 263 - The rites begin with spilling some of the caudle on the ground, by way of libation : on that every one takes a cake of oatmeal, upon which are raised nine square knobs, each dedicated to some particular being, the supposed preserver of their flocks and herds, or to some particular animal, the real destroyer of them. Each person then turns his face to the fire, breaks off a knob, and flinging it over his shoulders, says, " This I give to thce, preserve thou my horses ; this to thee, preserve thou...
Seite 183 - And Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal apparel of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a garment of fine linen and purple: and the city of Shushan rejoiced and was glad.
Seite 460 - In the last analysis, magic, religion and science are nothing but theories of thought; and as science has supplanted its predecessors, so it may hereafter be itself superseded by some more perfect hypothesis, perhaps by some totally different way of looking at the phenomena — of registering the shadows on the screen — of which we in this generation can form no idea.
Seite 363 - is far from here and hard to find, on the wide ocean. In that sea is an island, and on the island there grows a green oak, and beneath the oak is an iron chest, and in the chest is a small basket, and in the basket is a hare, and in the hare is a duck, and in the duck is an egg ; and he who finds the egg and breaks it, kills me at the same time.
Seite 290 - Accordingly, exactly at midnight, the fires began to appear; and taking the advantage of going up to the leads of the house, which had a widely extended view, I saw on a radius of thirty miles, all around, the fires burning on every eminence which the country afforded. I had a farther satisfaction in learning, from undoubted authority, that the people danced round the fires, and at the close went through these fires, and made their sons and daughters, together with their cattle, pass through the...