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

Sometimes it comes from the hand of man.” “But how do you know that in this instance it comes fr ...

are good. He is far above all the other gods. In some parts of Guinea the daily prayer is, “O GOD, I kn ...

CHAPTER X. THE ZULU WITCH-FINDERS. ENGLISH Law now reigns in Zululand, and the occupation of the Witch- finders is ...

for effect which would have done credit to a London theatre. It will suffice to depict one of them, b ...

fringes of Angora-goat fleece. This, as a decoration, was both graceful and effective; it was wor ...

comrades, and altogether she gave me the impression of being a sensible, respectable woman, who was v ...

but Nozilwane rushes about like one possessed, sobbing and quivering with excitement, “It is this—it is ...

CHAPTER XI. ZABIANISM AND SERPENT-WORSHIP. THERE can be no question as to the antiquity or universality of Ser ...

is personified by the seven principal planets, and by the good, knowing, excellent earthly bodies ...

light in which there is no darkness, which the senses cannot conceive by reason of its immense clearness, w ...

nor in any world but this, though at different epochs of existence. Hence, our present happiness is a reward ...

the temple of Bel, or Belus; and the name Bel itself is thought by some writers to be an abbreviation of O ...

Reference is here made to two snakes, which, as we have seen, is the hierogram of the worshippers of the Tw ...

sweethearts! A flint was also found, beautifully and minutely serrated at the edge; nevertheless, it was ...

whole length of the great reptile, and across the dark lake, to the threefold peaks of Ben Cruachan. That ...

allow him to melt the golden viper into a sacramental chalice. One of the most interesting of the supposed ...

horse-shoe over a door as a protection against evil spirits. It is curious that at Erdeven, where ...

as in the Old; to meet with its traces in Mexico as well as in Egypt or Chaldea. But certain it is ...

The Mexican month was divided into twenty days, two of which were symbolised by the serpent ...

sacrifice.” Mr. Bullock, who made a valuable collection of Mexican antiquities, describes an idol, “the go ...