Tom Tit Tot: An Essay on Savage Philosophy in Folk-taleDuckworth and Company, 1898 - 249 sider |
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Abipones agin amulets ancient astrology baptismal barbaric belief barbaric ideas Benjamin Thorpe Berchta birth blood body Book called ceremonies charm child civilised custom darter dead death deity demon devil Di Indigetes earth Egyptians evil eye evil spirits examples fairy father fear five skeins flax flesh Folk-Lore Record folk-tales ghost girl gives goddess gods Golden Bough Grimm hair hath heaven Hence Hindu History holy human husband incarnated Indian Jeshu Kalevala Karl Pearson king large number legend lest living Lord magic maleficent man's mankind mantram Mary Kingsley mawther mother never Nimmy Osiris person Plutarch priest primitive reference remarks Rex Nemorensis rites Romane Questions Rome round sacred savage says sorcerer soul speak spinning story superstition taboo tells theory things thy name tion Tit Tot Tom Tit Tot tribes Tylor unto utter the names variants Welsh Whuppity Stoorie wife witch woman Words of Power
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Side 210 - They say the Lion and the Lizard keep The Courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank deep: And Bahram, that great Hunter — the Wild Ass Stamps o'er his Head, but cannot break his Sleep.
Side 140 - And he said, thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel : for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
Side 140 - Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham ; for a father of many nations have I made thee.
Side 140 - And the Lord said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken: for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by name.
Side 17 - An' that stretched out that's black hands at her. Well, she backed a step or two, an' she looked at it, and then she laughed out, an' says she, a pointin' of her finger at it: " Nimmy nimmy not Yar name's Tom Tit Tot.
Side 112 - And from thence they went to Beer: that is the well whereof the Lord spake unto Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water. Then Israel sang this song, SPRING up, O well; sing ye unto it...
Side 236 - Lastly, the lesson which the words in question contain for the student of man is that the Celts, and certain other widely separated Aryans, unless we should rather say the whole Aryan family, believed at one time not only that the name was a part of the man, but that it was that part of him which is termed the soul, the breath of life, or whatever you may choose to define it as being.
Side 71 - It is now easy to understand why a savage should desire to partake of the flesh of an animal or man whom he regards as divine. By eating the body of the god he shares in the god's attributes and powers. And when the god is a corn-god, the corn is his proper body ; when he is a vine-god, the juice of the grape is his blood ; and so by eating the bread and drinking the wine the worshipper partakes of the real body and blood of his god. Thus the drinking of wine in the rites of a vine-god like Dionysus...
Side 14 - All right," that says, an' lork ! how that twirled that's tail. Well, the next day, her husband he took her inter the room, an' there was the flax an' the day's vittles. " Now there's the flax," says he, " an' if that ain't spun up this night, off goo yar hid.
Side 155 - ... his hair could be cut only by a free man and with a bronze knife, and his hair and nails, when cut, had to be buried under a lucky tree...