Beiträge zur vergleichenden Psychologie: die Seele und ihre Erscheinungsweisen in der Ethnographie

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Dümmler, 1868 - 288 sider
 

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Side 160 - ... about the room of themselves, the children's shoes were hurled over their heads, and every loose thing moved about the chamber. At the same time a bedstaff was thrown at the Minister, which hit him on the leg, but so favourably that a lock of wool could not have fallen more softly, and it was observed, that it stopped just where it lighted, without rolling or moving from the place.
Side 160 - During the time of the knocking, when many were present, a Gentleman of the Company said, Satan, if the Drummer set thee to work, give three knocks and no more, which it did very distinctly and stopt.
Side 136 - The priest becomes absorbed in thought, and all eyes watch him with unblinking steadiness. In a few minutes he trembles ; slight distortions are seen in his face, and twitching movements in his limbs. These increase to a violent muscular action, which spreads until the whole frame is strongly convulsed, and the man shivers as with a strong ague fit.
Side 160 - Drummer set thee to work, give three knocks and no more, which it did very distinctly and stopt. Then the Gentleman knockt, to see if it would answer him as it was wont, but it did not. For further trial, he bid it for confirmation, if it were the Drummer, to give five knocks and no more that night, which it did, and left the House quiet all the night after.
Side 43 - Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep," was one familiar to their minds ; and it is impossible not to feel interested in a people who were accustomed to consider themselves surrounded by invisible intelligences, and who recognized in the rising sun — the mild and silver moon — the shooting star — the meteor's transient flame — the ocean's roar — the tempest's blast, or the evening breeze — the movements of mighty spirits. The mountain's summit, and the fleecy mists that hang upon...
Side 280 - Geht man auf den Grund der Erscheinungen, so erkennt man bald, dafs es weder Kräfte noch Materie giebt", denn diese als solche sollen nach Du Bois' wiederholten Erklärungen nur Abstraktionen der vorstellenden Thätigkeit des Menschen sein.
Side 195 - Allah hu! Rausche, Meer, am Fels im Sturme Gottes Preis ! Nachtigall, um Rosen flöte, Allah hu! Seele, willst ein Stern dich schwingen um dich selbst wirf von dir des Lebens Nöte, Allah hu ! Wer die Kraft des Reigens kennet, lebt in Gott, denn er weiß, wie Liebe töte.
Side 10 - Gedaukenreihen zugelassen, ein x von nicht definirtem und nicht definirbarem Werthe, das bei allen geistigen Berechnungen, bei jedem Abwägen neben einander schwingender Gedankenreihen, für diejenigen, worin es eingeht, den Ausschlag geben, diese, als die schwerste, zur dominirenden machen mufs.
Side 235 - The 36 male wizards are obliged (as it were) to leave their sex, and to dress themselves in female apparel, and are not permitted to marry, though the female ones or witches may. They are generally chosen for this office when they are children, and a preference is always shown to those who at that early time of life discover an effeminate disposition.
Side 22 - They distinguish a fifth sort of body, under the name of aharica, which they explain as a minute form, issuing from the head of a meditative sage, to consult an omniscient saint; and returning with the desired information to the person whence that form issued, or rather from which it was elongated; for they suppose the communication not to have been interrupted.

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