I rub my warts with raw meat and then bury the meat, the warts will decay and disappear with the decay and dissolution of the meat. In like manner my shirt or stocking, or a rag to represent it, placed upon a sacred bush, or thrust into a sacred well... An Introduction to the History of Religion - Side 221af Frank Byron Jevons - 1896 - 443 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
| 1894 - 368 sider
...only another application of the same reasoning as that which underlies the practices of witchcraft. A shirt or stocking, or a rag to represent it, placed...upon a sacred bush, or thrust into a sacred well, — a name written upon the walls of a temple — a stone or a pellet cast upon a sacred image or a... | |
| William Crooke - 1896 - 346 sider
...owner into her power, the rags were meant to connect the worshipper with the deity. " In like manner my shirt or stocking, or a rag to represent it, placed...bush or thrust into a sacred well, my name written on the walls of a temple, a stone or pellet from my hand cast upon a sacred image or a sacred cairn,... | |
| Alfred Cort Haddon - 1898 - 468 sider
...meat, the warts will decay and disappear with the decay and dissolution of the meat. In like manner my shirt or stocking, or a rag to represent it, placed...written upon the walls of a temple — a stone or pellet from my hand cast upon a sacred image or a sacred cairn — a remnant of my food cast into a... | |
| Alfred Cort Haddon - 1898 - 470 sider
...meat, the warts will decay and disappear with the decay and dissolution of the meat. In like manner my shirt or stocking, or a rag to represent it, placed...sacred well— my name written upon the walls of a temple—a stone or pellet from my hand cast upon a sacred image or a sacred cairn—a remnant of my... | |
| Sir John Rhys - 1901 - 462 sider
...meat, the wart will decay and disappear with the decay and dissolution of the meat. ... In like manner my shirt or stocking, or a rag to represent it, placed...my hand cast upon a sacred image or a sacred cairn — is thenceforth in continual contact with divinity ; and the effluence of divinity, reaching and... | |
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