... 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... Folklore - Page 162edited by - 1900Full view - About this book
| Robert Ranulph Marett - 1909 - 228 pages
...his religious practice. And this being assumed, we reach our special problem : Before, or at anyrate apart from, Animism, was early man subject to any...Hantus that send disputes, and the Hantus that send mosquitoes." 1 Now are all these Hantus, animistically speaking, on a par, or are some original, others... | |
| Robert Ranulph Marett - 1909 - 238 pages
...his religious practice. And this being assumed, we reach our special problem : Before, or at anyrate apart from, Animism, was early man subject to any...the Hantus (spirits)," he replied — "the Hantus °f the forest, of the mountains, of the rivers, the Hantus of the Sakai chiefs who are dead, the Hantus... | |
| Edward Scribner Ames - 1910 - 444 pages
...miscellaneous collection of spiritual entities." 2 He quotes the following conversation in illustration: " 'To whom are you praying? ' asked Hale of a Sakai...Hantus of the Sakai chiefs who are dead, the Hantus of the headache and stomachache, the Hantus that make people gamble and smoke opium, the Hantus that send... | |
| Edward Scribner Ames - 1910 - 456 pages
...miscellaneous collection of spiritual entities." 2 He quotes the following conversation in illustration: " 'To whom are you praying? ' asked Hale of a Sakai...Hantus of the Sakai chiefs who are dead, the Hantus of the headache and stomachache, the Hantus that make people gamble and smoke opium, the Hantus that send... | |
| Edward Scribner Ames - 1910 - 470 pages
...miscellaneous collection of spiritual entities." 2 He quotes the following conversation in illustration: " 'To whom are you praying?' asked Hale of a Sakai chief...Hantus of the Sakai chiefs who are dead, the Hantus of the headache and stomachache, the Hantus that make people gamble and smoke opium, the Hantus that send... | |
| Robert Ranulph Marett - 1914 - 264 pages
...proofs, as they may be called, of spiritualism (which after all is but another name for animism), 1 I mean clairvoyance and the like, were brought into...hantus that send disputes, and the hantus that send mosquitoes." l Now are all these hantus, animistically speaking, on a par, or are some original, others... | |
| David Cymmer Owen - 1914 - 160 pages
...irrespective of any goodness or badness that may belong to him, solely occupies the field of vision. ' To whom are you praying ? ' asked Hale of a Sakai...rivers, the Hantus of the Sakai chiefs who are dead.' 2 The beings appealed to here in prayer are designated spirits, for the reason that the exercise of... | |
| Robert Ranulph Marett - 1914 - 282 pages
...festivals so characteristic of the Malay peninsula. " To the hantus (spirits)," 1 Prim. Cult. , i. 426. he replied — " the hantus of the forest, of the...hantus that send disputes, and the hantus that send mosquitoes." 1 Now are all these hantus, animistically speaking, on a par, or are some original, others... | |
| Robert Ranulph Marett - 1914 - 296 pages
...savage as we know him to-day believes in an infinitely miscellaneous collection of spiritual entitiesT " To whom are you praying? " asked Hale of a Sakai chief...of the Malay peninsula. " To the hantus (spirits)," 1 Prim. Cult. , i. 426. he replied — " the hantus of the forest, of the mountains, of the rivers,... | |
| Turner B S Staff - 2004 - 202 pages
...his religious practice. And this being assumed, we reach our special problem : Before, or at anyrate apart from, Animism, was early man subject to any...Hantus that send disputes, and the Hantus that send mosquitoes." ' Now are all these Hantus, animistically speaking, on a par, or are some original, others... | |
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