Letters on Demonology and WitchcraftJ. & J. Harper, 1830 - 338 ページ Partial Contents: Origin of the general Opinions respecting Demonology among Mankind; Belief in the Immortality of the Soul; Situations of excited passion in humanity which teach men to wish or apprehend Supernatural Apparitions; Story of Somnambulism; Witches and the Bible; Creed of Zoroaster; Law of the Romans against Witchcraft; Roman customs survive the fall of their Religion; Correspondence between Northern and Roman Witches; Fairy Superstition; Elves; Those who dealt in fortune-telling, mystical cures by charms; Immediate Effect of Christianity on Articles of Popular Superstition; Prosecution of Witches and Sorcerers. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved. |
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... mean merely Poisoner - Or if in the Holy Text it also means a Divineress , she must , at any rate , have been a Character very different to be identified with it - The original , Chasaph , said to mean a Person who dealt in Poisons ...
... mean merely Poisoner - Or if in the Holy Text it also means a Divineress , she must , at any rate , have been a Character very different to be identified with it - The original , Chasaph , said to mean a Person who dealt in Poisons ...
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... means of the imperfect organs of humanity . Pro- bability may lead some of the most reflecting to an- ticipate a state of future rewards and punishments ; as those experienced in the education of the deaf and dumb find that their pupils ...
... means of the imperfect organs of humanity . Pro- bability may lead some of the most reflecting to an- ticipate a state of future rewards and punishments ; as those experienced in the education of the deaf and dumb find that their pupils ...
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... means or other , able to communicate with the world of humanity . The more numerous part of mankind cannot form in their mind the idea of the spirit of the deceased existing , without pos- sessing or having the power to assume the ...
... means or other , able to communicate with the world of humanity . The more numerous part of mankind cannot form in their mind the idea of the spirit of the deceased existing , without pos- sessing or having the power to assume the ...
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... means of strengthening it . Of this disposition to see as much of the super- natural as is seen by others around , or , in other words , to trust to the eyes of others rather than to our own , we may take the liberty to quote two re ...
... means of strengthening it . Of this disposition to see as much of the super- natural as is seen by others around , or , in other words , to trust to the eyes of others rather than to our own , we may take the liberty to quote two re ...
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... means of bringing it on , and although such hallucinations are proper to both . The difference I conceive to be , that , in cases of insanity , the mind of the patient is principally affected , while the senses , or organic system ...
... means of bringing it on , and although such hallucinations are proper to both . The difference I conceive to be , that , in cases of insanity , the mind of the patient is principally affected , while the senses , or organic system ...
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62 ページ - In consecrated earth, And on the holy hearth, The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint ; In urns and altars round A drear and dying sound Affrights the Flamens at their service quaint ; And the chill marble seems to sweat, While each peculiar Power foregoes his wonted seat.
44 ページ - The doubling storm roars thro' the woods, The lightnings flash from pole to pole, Near and more near the thunders roll, When, glimmering thro' the groaning trees, Kirk-Alloway seem'd in a bleeze, Thro' ilka bore the beams were glancing, And loud resounded mirth and dancing. Inspiring bold John Barleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi' tippenny, we fear nae evil ; Wi' usquebae, we'll face the devil!
52 ページ - There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, "Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
148 ページ - At morning and at evening both, You merry were and glad, So little care of sleep...
149 ページ - Witness those rings and roundelays Of theirs, which yet remain, Were footed in Queen Mary's days On many a grassy plain; But since of late, Elizabeth And, later, James came in, They never danced on any heath As when the time hath been.
62 ページ - The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arch6d roof in words deceiving : Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
215 ページ - Having taken the suspected witch, she is placed in the middle of a room upon a stool or table, cross-legged, or in some other uneasy posture; to which, if she submits not, she is then bound with cords; there she is watched, and kept without meat, or sleep, for the space of four and twenty hours.
328 ページ - I was only nineteen or twenty years old, when I happened to pass a night in the magnificent old baronial castle of Glammis, the hereditary seat of the Earls of Strathmore. The hoary pile contains much in its appearance, and in the traditions connected with it, impressive to the imagination. It was the scene of the murder of a Scottish king of great antiquity ; not, indeed, the gracious Duncan, with whom the name naturally associates itself, but Malcolm II. It contains also a curious monument of the...
328 ページ - I began to consider myself as too far from the living, and somewhat too near the dead. We had passed through what is called the King's Room, a vaulted apartment, garnished with stags...