 | Henry O'Reilly - 1838 - 570 sider
...Afterward, on another day, several men clothe themselves in the skins of wild beasts, cover their faces with hideous masks and their hands with the shell of the tortoise, and in this garb they go among the wigwams, making horrid noises, taking the fuel from the fire, and... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1841 - 538 sider
...Afterward, on another day, several men clothe themselves in the skins of wild beasts, cover their faces with hideous masks, and their hands with the shell of the tortoise, and in this garb they go among the wigwams, making horrid noises, taking the fuel from the fire, and... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1848 - 646 sider
...Afterward, on another day, several men clothe themselves in the skins of wild beasts, cover their faces with hideous masks, and their hands with the shell of the tortoise, and in this garb they go among the wigwams, making horrid noises, taking the fuel from the fire, and... | |
 | J. C. Gilleland - 1851 - 478 sider
...Afterward, on another day, several men clothe themselves in the skins of wild beasts, cover their faces with hideous masks and their > hands with the shell of the tortoise, and in this garb they go among the wigwams, making horrid noises, taking the fuel from the fire, and... | |
 | Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson - 1896 - 830 sider
...day of which " the ceremony of driving away evil spirits from the village took place. Men clothed in skins of wild beasts, their faces covered with hideous...scattered the embers and ashes about the floor with their hands."t In * Gomme, Gtntlemaris Magazine Library, Manners and Customs, p. 80 ; Hone, Every -day Book,... | |
 | James George Frazer - 1900 - 522 sider
...belabouring obnoxious persons, drenching them with ice-cold water, and covering them with filth or hot ashes. Others seized burning brands or coals and flung them...it was a way of stripping the people of their moral burdens, that these might be collected and cast out. This New Year festival is still celebrated by... | |
 | 1901 - 790 sider
...auf Grund der besten Werke über die Bräuche der Indianer ausgearbeitet hat, fährt alsdann fort: On one day of the festival the ceremony of driving...it was a way of stripping the people of their moral burdens, that these might be collected and cast out. Nichts steht somit im Wege anzunehmen, dass auch... | |
 | James George Frazer - 2005 - 733 sider
...at the heads of the first persons they met. The only way of escaping from these persecutors was lo guess what they had dreamed of. On one day of the...it was a way of stripping the people of their moral burdens, that these might be collected and cast out. In September the Incas of Peru celebrated a festival... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1841 - 640 sider
...Afterward, on another day, several men clothe themselves in the skins of wild beasts, cover their faces with hideous masks, and their hands with the shell of the tortoise, and in this garb they go among the wigwams, making horrid noises, taking the fuel from the fire, and... | |
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Others seized burning brands or coals and flung them at the heads of the first persons they met. The only way of escaping from these persecutors was to guess what they had dreamed of. On one day of the festival the ceremony of driving away evil spirits... 