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" ... then takes up a club that is placed by him for the purpose, turns it over and regards it attentively; he then looks up earnestly, now to the right, now to the left, and now again at the club; afterwards he looks up again and about him in like manner,... "
An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean - Side 100
af William Mariner - 1827
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Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and Its ..., Bind 3

1817 - 678 sider
...слтс* coming wtthiH about lour fectof the ground. . . , several times : at length he suddenly raised the club, and, after a moment's pause, strikes the...back of the ring among the people. If the company now tvish for any more cava, Finow, or the greatest chief present, goes and sits nt the head of the ring....
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The Nineteenth Century, Bind 19

1886 - 988 sider
...afterwards he looks up again and about him in like manner, and then again fixes his eyes on the club, and so on for several times. At length he suddenly...retires to the back of the ring among the people. (Vol. i. pp. 100-101.) The phenomena thus described, in language which bears the stamp of fidelity...
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Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions

Thomas Henry Huxley - 1892 - 648 sider
...afterwards he looks up again and about him in like manner, and then again fixes his eyes on the club, and so on for several times. At length he suddenly...and retires to the back of the ring among the people (vol. i. pp. 100, 101). The phenomena thus described, in language which, to any one who is familiar...
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Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions

Thomas Henry Huxley - 1892 - 648 sider
...afterwards he looks up again and about him in like manner, and then again fixes his eyes on the club, and so on for several times. At length he suddenly raises the club, and, after a moment's panse, strikes the ground or the adjacent part of the house with considerable force; immediately the...
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Collected Essays: Science and Hebrew tradition

Thomas Henry Huxley - 1894 - 412 sider
...afterwards he looks up again and about him in like manner, and then again fixes his eyes on the club, and so on for several times. At length he suddenly...and retires to the back of the ring among the people (vol. i. pp. 100, 101). The phenomena thus' described, in language which, to any one who is familiar...
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Science and Hebrew tradition

Thomas Henry Huxley - 1896 - 402 sider
...afterwards he looks up again and about him in like manner, and then again fixes his eyes on the club, and so on for several times. At length he suddenly...considerable force ; immediately the god leaves him, and be rises up and retires to the back of the ring among the people (vol. i. pp. 100, 101). The phenomena...
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The Evidence for the Supernatural: A Critucal Study Made with "uncommon Sense"

Ivor Lloyd Tuckett - 1911 - 426 sider
...it is over, he often eats as much as four hungry men under other circumstances could devour. Then it being now gone off, he remains for some time calm,...retires to the back of the ring among the people. . . . " It might be supposed that this violent agitation on the part of the priest is merely an assumed...
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The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead: The belief among the ...

James George Frazer - 1922 - 472 sider
...afterwards he looks up again, and about him in like manner, and then again fixes his eyes upon his club, and so on, for several times : at length he suddenly...rises up and retires to the back of the ring among the people."1 § 7. The Worship of the Gods, Prayers, and Sacrifices The worship offered to the gods consisted...
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Possession: Demoniacal and Other ; Among Primitive Races, in Antiquity, the ...

Traugott K. Oesterreich - 1999 - 416 sider
...afterwards he looks up again, and about him in like manner, and then again fixes his eyes upon his club, and so on for several times: at length he suddenly...considerable force: immediately the god leaves him. . . .1 Some of the natives are such adepts at this sort of mysterious conversation with the divinities,...
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Early Sociology of Religion

Turner B S Staff - 2004 - 370 sider
...afterwards he looks up again, and about him in like manner, and then again fixes his eyes upon his club, and so on for several times ; at length he suddenly...retires to the back of the ring among the people. In interpreting this phenomenon the early observer quoted above was already on the right track. Denying...
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