Folklore, Volume 11Joseph Jacobs, Alfred Trübner Nutt, Arthur Robinson Wright, William Crooke Folklore Society, 1900 Most vols. for 1890- contain list of members of the Folk-lore Society. |
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... animistic Religion . R. R. Marett Proceedings at Meeting of Wednesday , February 21st , 1900 Proceedings at Meeting of Wednesday , March 21st , 1900 III . ( SEPTEMBER 1900. ) Proceedings at Meeting of Wednesday , April 25th , 1900 ...
... animistic Religion . R. R. Marett Proceedings at Meeting of Wednesday , February 21st , 1900 Proceedings at Meeting of Wednesday , March 21st , 1900 III . ( SEPTEMBER 1900. ) Proceedings at Meeting of Wednesday , April 25th , 1900 ...
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... animistic Religion . A. LANG and R. R. MARETT . Medical Superstition : Snakes . W. R. PATON More Snake - Lore . M. PEACOCK 417 · 419 • 422 · 423 424 • 425 426 · 105 · 105 · 105 · 106 • 209 · 210 • 210 • 318 · 321 • 321 Horses ' Heads ...
... animistic Religion . A. LANG and R. R. MARETT . Medical Superstition : Snakes . W. R. PATON More Snake - Lore . M. PEACOCK 417 · 419 • 422 · 423 424 • 425 426 · 105 · 105 · 105 · 106 • 209 · 210 • 210 • 318 · 321 • 321 Horses ' Heads ...
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... animistic , but he supplements this form of worship by the casual or periodical veneration of one or several of the members of the official pantheon . When we find , then , that five and a half millions of people in the Panjab and North ...
... animistic , but he supplements this form of worship by the casual or periodical veneration of one or several of the members of the official pantheon . When we find , then , that five and a half millions of people in the Panjab and North ...
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... animistic tendency of civilised men to treat a ship or a steam engine as a living creature . " Even this analogy , unsound as it is for the civilised man is only playing at such a belief - occurs to Sir Alfred only because folklorists ...
... animistic tendency of civilised men to treat a ship or a steam engine as a living creature . " Even this analogy , unsound as it is for the civilised man is only playing at such a belief - occurs to Sir Alfred only because folklorists ...
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... ANIMISTIC RELIGION . BY R. R. MARETT , M.A. ( Read at Meeting of November 15th , 1899. ) THE object of the present paper is simply to try to give relatively definite shape to the conception of a certain very primitive phase of Religion ...
... ANIMISTIC RELIGION . BY R. R. MARETT , M.A. ( Read at Meeting of November 15th , 1899. ) THE object of the present paper is simply to try to give relatively definite shape to the conception of a certain very primitive phase of Religion ...
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Abu-Nowâs afarim afrit alashân ALFRED NUTT ancient animals animistic appear Archangel Michael asked Ba'dên belief Bella Coola betâ Cairo called charm child child-stealing clan conjuration cult custom dead demon Devil donkey door el-bâb en-nâs er-râgil es-sultân Evil Spirit fact fairy folklore Frö give Gylo Hananim hand Hartland head Helwân horn horses husband Icelandic kallimmo ketîr Khêba killed king lamma legend Lord magic marriage mother mûsh myth mythology names native Nêba night notes ogre once origin Pausanias piastres pixies Portesham priest Qallo râgil Religion religious replied sacred sacrifice Saga saints savage seems seqq snake Society stone story sultan superstitions Tacitus Tayyib thee thou tion told took totem tradition tribes Upper Egypt village völva W. H. D. ROUSE wâḥid wife witch woman word worship
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Page 41 - IN THE CHAIR. THE minutes of the last Annual Meeting were read and confirmed. The...
Page 162 - ... might be termed specifically "religious"? Let us begin by asking ourselves what was the precise ground originally covered by animistic belief. The answer, if purely tentative, is soon made. The savage as we know him to-day believes in an infinitely miscellaneous collection of spiritual entities. " To whom are you praying? " asked Hale of a Sakai chief at one of those fruit festivals so characteristic of the Malay peninsula.
Page 465 - Many of the societies in union with the Society of Antiquaries take a sufficient number of copies of the yearly Index to issue with their transactions to each of their members. The more this plan is extended the less will be the cost of the Index to each society.
Page 23 - The gold is swung, the silver is swung, and swung, too, is my love with the golden hair; 'to which the maiden replies, ' Who is it that swings me that I may gild him with my favour, that I may work him a fez all covered with pearls?
Page 164 - Wonder, and the like, wherein feeling would seem for the time being to have outstripped the power of " natural," that is reasonable, explanation, there arises in the region of human thought a powerful impulse to objectify and even personify the mysterious or " supernatural " something felt, and in the region of will a corresponding impulse to render it innocuous, or better still propitious, by force of constraint, communion, or conciliation.
Page 465 - If for any reason the papers of a society are not indexed in the year to which they properly belong the plan is to include them in the following year ; and whenever the papers of societies are brought into the Index for the first time they are then indexed from the year 1891. By this means it will be seen that the year 1891 is treated as the commencing year for the annual Index, and that all transactions published in and since that year will find their place in the series.
Page 165 - seems marvellously vague. I was Ngai. My lamp was Ngai. Ngai was in the steaming holes. His house was in the eternal snows of Kilimanjaro. In fact, whatever struck them as strange or incomprehensible,, that they at...
Page 465 - Index, and that all transactions published in and since that year will find their place in the series. To make this work complete an index of the transactions from the beginning of archaeological societies down to the year 1890 needs to be published. This Index is already completed in MS. form, and the first part will be ready by March next.
Page 372 - ... were led thereto, unto a place where lay before her an uprooted tree, as big as a man might bear on his shoulder. She looked at the tree and bade them turn it over before her eyes, and on one side it was as if singed and rubbed; so there whereas it was rubbed she let cut a little flat space; and then she took her knife and cut runes on the root, and made them red with her blood, and sang witchwords over them; then she went backwards and widdershins round about the tree, and cast over it many...
Page 161 - This theory asserts that the prototype of soul and spirit is to be sought especially in the dream-image and trance-image — that vision of the night or day that comes to a man clothed distinctively in what Dr. Tylor describes as