A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the AncientsD. Nutt, 1894 - 103 ページ |
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Affertion Africa Ainu alluded amongst Ancients Animal Anthrop Apes Ariftotle Ariftotle's Author Bartholine Beafts becauſe Bochartus Brutes called Cardan caves Childe Rowland Ctefias Cubit Cynocephali Dagda doubt Dravidian race dwarfs dwell Edward Tyson effe etiam Fable fabulous fairies faith fame feet six inches fhall fhould fight the Cranes fince firft five feet fome fuch funt Gammadim Grues habitations hair height Herodotus Hift himſelf Homer Homines Horſes Indian Hiftorians inhabited Keightley likewife live Ludolphus MacRitchie mentioned moſt mound muſt Negrito obferved occafion Olaus Magnus Orang-Outang Paulus Jovius Philoftratus Pigmy races Pliny Pomponius Mela Pygmæorum Pygmies quæ quod quoted reaſon says Scaliger Scythia ſeems ſpeak stature stone Story Strabo Strabo Geograph tells thefe theſe thofe thoſe tion Tranflation tribes Troglodytes tumuli Tyson uſe Voffius wild ἄνδρες δὲ ἐκ ἐν καὶ καὶ οἱ μὲν τὰ τὸ τοῖς τοὺς τῶν
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lxii ページ - After the first week, however, he began to walk about, making his servant show and explain every thing to him. He found that there were in that place the most beautiful walks, in which he might ramble along for miles, in all directions, without ever finding an end of them, so immensely large was the hill that the little people lived in, and yet outwardly it seemed but a little hill, with a few bushes and trees growing on it.
lvi ページ - Spirits, and they believe that it is the abode of little devils, in the human form, of about eighteen inches high and with remarkably large heads; they are armed with sharp arrows, with which they are very skilful, and are always on the watch to kill those who should have the hardihood to approach their residence. The tradition is that many have suffered from these little evil spirits, and among others three Maha Indians fell a sacrifice to them a few years since.
xxxiv ページ - Longo pass where they dwell, they will forsake that place, and go to another. The women carry Bows and Arrows as well as the men. And one of these will walk in the woods alone and kill the Pongos with their poysoned Arrows.
xciii ページ - Salzburg to perform their devotions in the cathedral ; giants, who used to come to the church of Grodich and exhort the people to lead a godly and pious life ; and the great emperor Charles V., with golden crown and sceptre, attended by knights and lords. His grey beard has twice encompassed the table at which he sits, and when it has the third time grown round it, the end of the world and the appearance of the Antichrist will take place.* * All relating to the Wild-women and the Wunderberg is given...
lix ページ - Cremhthann followed them because his wife Nar was of the Tuatha Dea, and it was she solicited him that he should adopt Brugh as a burial-place for himself and his descendants, and this was the cause that...
xliii ページ - Middle India has black men, who are called Pygmies, using the same language as the other Indians: they are, however, very little : that the greatest do not exceed the height of two cubits, and the most part only of one cubit and a half. But they nourish the longest hair, hanging down unto the knees and even below : moreover, they carry a beard more at length than any other men ; but, what is more, . . . after this 1 Of the History of Animals, b. viii. c. xii. " Of the Pygmies, that is, of dwarfs,...
xxxiv ページ - Boyes of twelve yeares olde, but verie thicke, and live onely upon fleshe, which they kill in the woods with their Bowes and Darts. They pay tribute to Mani Kesock, and bring all their Elephants
lxxvi ページ - He would roast a little red yam, and when it was done fold it in the corner of the mat on which he was sitting. In a little while it would be gone, and then the Nopitu would begin to talk and sing in a voice so small and clear and sweet, that once heard it never could be forgotten ; but it sang the ordinary Mota songs, while the men drummed an accompaniment for it. Then it would say, ' I am going ; ' they would call it, and it was gone. Then a woman would feel it come to her, and sit upon her knee...
xlvi ページ - ... lytylle folk: And it is a gret Cytee and a fair; and the men ben grete, that duellen amonges hem: but whan thei geten ony Children, thei ben als litylle as the Pygmeyes: and therfore thei ben alle, for the moste part, alle Pygmeyes; for the Nature of the Lond is suche. The grete Cane let kepe this Cytee fulle wel: for it is his. And alle be it, that the Pygmeyes ben lytylle, zit thei ben fulle resonable, aftre here Age, and connen bothen Wytt and gode and malice y now.
lxxv ページ - ... possess those with whom they associate themselves. The possessed are themselves called Nopitu. Such persons would lift a cocoanut to drink, and native shellmoney would run out instead of the juice, and rattle against their teeth ; they would vomit up money, or scratch and shake themselves on a mat, while money would pour from their fingers. This was often seen, and believed to be the doing of a Nopitu. In another manner of manifestation, a Nopitu would make himself known as a party were sitting...