Curiosities of Superstition, and Sketches - W. H. Davenport Adams

influence over those who are nearly their equals; by means of it they supply their most important wants, ...

roasted in the cook-houses, and duly eaten. But, first, the tohunga cut off a portion of the flesh, and with ce ...

mournful cry through the deserted coasts. I rambled over the scenes of many savage deeds.” Cannibalism, or to ...

enter into the festivity with as much zest as they do. On the last day but one he is bound to a s ...

But it seems clear that in the majority of cases, anthropophagy originates in a constant scarcity of fo ...

CHAPTER XV. THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. THE general characteristics of the North American Indians, or the Red ...

complete homogeneity. The Red Skins,—with whom alone we shall concern ourselves,—were formerly distributed over ...

warrior. We can hardly suppress a feeling of regret that so much wild romance should have been swep ...

propitiate the Great Spirit on behalf of the neophyte who undergoes it, so that he may become a successful h ...

where he sleeps, but on the second morning he re-enters the village, and marches to the medicine-lodge, followed ...

swift chase they overtake the eagle-men, seize the food, and devour it. This rude frolic is repeated ...

locomotion. No two human beings, says Mr. Catlin, can ever present a more striking group than is presented ...

Two of the hide ropes are now let down from the roof, and twisted round the skewers on the breast or sho ...

bow, are left. Then comes the last scene of this strange, eventful history, bringing the neoph ...

The candidates then come out of the medicine-lodge, dragging the heavy weights attached to their limbs, and ...

In the second case, two of the weights attached to the arms refused to yield, and the hapless neophyte crept ...

until he can kill an enemy, and take his medicine-bag to replace his own. If, without losing his own, he ...

with the old women and the dogs. He asserted that the first medicine-man had failed, because his shield ward ...

sish is laid low, and many are the eyes that weep for Ko-ka, the antelope. Wak-a- dah-ha-ku gives t ...

of the pieces he threw into the water and the other into the fire, accompanying the action with a diaboli ...