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

CURIOSITIES

OF

SUPERSTITION,

AND

Sketches of some Unrevealed Religions.

BY

W.  H.  DAVENPORT   ADAMS,

AUTHOR  OF  “HEROES OF  THE CROSS,” ETC.

“To my  mind    there   is  no  study   more    absorbing

than     that    of  the     Religions   of  the     World,—the

study,   if  I   may     so  call    it,     of  the     various

languages    in  which   man     has     spoken  to  his

Maker,  and of  that    language    in  which   his Maker

‘at sundry  times   and in  divers  manners’    spake   to

man.”—MAX   MÜLLER.

“Primus in  orbe    Deos    fecit   timor.”—STATIUS,

Thebaid,    661.

LONDON:

J.  MASTERS AND CO.,    78, NEW BOND    STREET.

MDCCCLXXXII.