SHOWING THAT THE PRESENT-DAY SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF THE HOPI IS THE OUTGROWTH OF THEIR UNWRITTEN LIT
At a certain stage in this part of the ceremony there was a pause
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SHOWING THAT THE PRESENT-DAY SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF THE HOPI IS THE OUTGROWTH OF THEIR UNWRITTEN LIT
At this moment the heads of the snakes were thrust several times into the liquid, so that even parts of their bodies were submerged, and were then drawn out, not having left the hands of the priests, and forcibly thrown across the room upon the sand mosaic, kn
Read record →SHOWING THAT THE PRESENT-DAY SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF THE HOPI IS THE OUTGROWTH OF THEIR UNWRITTEN LIT
While the water, rising around the village, came higher, the old people got on the tops of the houses, for they thought they could not struggle across with the younger people
Read record →Cicero[1] tells us that it was generally believed that the dead lived on beneath the earth, and special…
Cicero[1] tells us that it was generally believed that the dead lived on beneath the earth, and special provision was made for them in every Latin town in the "mundus," a deep trench which was dug before the "pomerium" was traced, and regarded as the particula
Read record →All Nature was teeming with life, and he felt an answering thrill, when suddenly, as if from the very fountains…
All Nature was teeming with life, and he felt an answering thrill, when suddenly, as if from the very fountains of being within him, there welled up a consciousness of death, and with it the formless nothing, and a vision of himself lying cold, motionless, dum
Read record →When we come to inquire into the appearance of ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon, we find, as we…
When we come to inquire into the appearance of ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon, we find, as we should expect, that they are a vague, unsubstantial copy of their former selves on earth
Read record →Ghost stories play a very subordinate part in classical literature, as is only to be expected
Ghost stories play a very subordinate part in classical literature, as is only to be expected
Read record →Though Pliny certainly did not possess his friend's amazing credulity, he takes the request with becoming…
Though Pliny certainly did not possess his friend's amazing credulity, he takes the request with becoming seriousness, and promises to do his best; but he adds that the real question is whether Suetonius's dreams are usually true or not
Read record →Plutarch placed great faith in ghosts and visions
Plutarch placed great faith in ghosts and visions
Read record →The Greek and Roman stories hardly come up to the standards required by the Society for Psychical Research
The Greek and Roman stories hardly come up to the standards required by the Society for Psychical Research
Read record →In a letter to Sura[30] the younger Pliny gives us what may be taken as a prototype of all later haunted-house…
In a letter to Sura[30] the younger Pliny gives us what may be taken as a prototype of all later haunted-house stories
Read record →There were two candles left on the table, and these he put out
There were two candles left on the table, and these he put out
Read record →In the Mostellaria,[33] Plautus uses a ghost as a recognized piece of supernatural machinery
In the Mostellaria,[33] Plautus uses a ghost as a recognized piece of supernatural machinery
Read record →Great battlefields are everywhere believed to be haunted
Great battlefields are everywhere believed to be haunted
Read record →But the strangest account of the habitual haunting of great battlefields is to be found in Philostratus's…
But the strangest account of the habitual haunting of great battlefields is to be found in Philostratus's Heroica, which represents the spirits of the Homeric heroes as still closely connected with Troy and its neighbourhood
Read record →Maximus cannot, indeed, boast of having seen Hector, though he also has had his visions vouchsafed him
Maximus cannot, indeed, boast of having seen Hector, though he also has had his visions vouchsafed him
Read record →Achilles himself is once said to have appeared to a trader who frequently visited the island
Achilles himself is once said to have appeared to a trader who frequently visited the island
Read record →The dead, are summoned in the dense gloom of the mouth of Acheron with salt blood"; and Strabo quotes the early…
the dead, are summoned in the dense gloom of the mouth of Acheron with salt blood"; and Strabo quotes the early Greek historian Ephorus as relating how, even in his day, "the priests that raise the dead from Avernus live in underground dwellings, communicating
Read record →This knowledge of the future by the dead is to be found in more than one well-authenticated modern ghost story,…
This knowledge of the future by the dead is to be found in more than one well-authenticated modern ghost story, where the apparition would seem to have manifested itself for the express purpose of warning those whom it has loved on earth of approaching danger
Read record →Philostratus[73] has described for us a famous interview which Apollonius of Tyana maintained that he had had…
Philostratus[73] has described for us a famous interview which Apollonius of Tyana maintained that he had had with the shade of Achilles
Read record →In most of the Greek and Roman stories that survive, the wraiths of the dead are represented as revisiting…
In most of the Greek and Roman stories that survive, the wraiths of the dead are represented as revisiting their friends on earth in sleep
Read record →A mother was plunged in grief at the loss of her favourite son, when, on the night of the funeral, which had…
A mother was plunged in grief at the loss of her favourite son, when, on the night of the funeral, which had been long delayed at her earnest request, the boy appeared to her in a vision, and remained with her all night, kissing her and fondling her as if he w
Read record →This is by far the best of the stories in which we find a vision of the dead in sleep playing an important…
This is by far the best of the stories in which we find a vision of the dead in sleep playing an important part; but there is also the well-known tale of the Byzantine maiden Cleonice.[76] She was of high birth, but had the misfortune to attract the attention
Read record →While he lies asleep that night, the ghost of the gnat appears to him in a dream, and bitterly reproaches him…
While he lies asleep that night, the ghost of the gnat appears to him in a dream, and bitterly reproaches him for the cruel death with which it has been rewarded for its heroic services
Read record →We have one or two ghost stories connected with early Greek mythology
We have one or two ghost stories connected with early Greek mythology
Read record →With this story we may compare the well-known tale of the poet Simonides, who found an unknown corpse on the…
With this story we may compare the well-known tale of the poet Simonides, who found an unknown corpse on the shore, and honoured it with burial.[86] Soon afterwards he happened to be on the point of starting on a voyage, when the man whom he had buried appeare
Read record →This is one of the simplest forms in which the story appears
This is one of the simplest forms in which the story appears
Read record →Here one of the sailors got drunk and ravished a maiden, and was stoned to death in consequence by the…
Here one of the sailors got drunk and ravished a maiden, and was stoned to death in consequence by the indignant people of the town
Read record →Man from Cyzicus, hearing the news, denied it, saying that Aristeas had met him on the way thither and talked…
man from Cyzicus, hearing the news, denied it, saying that Aristeas had met him on the way thither and talked to him; and when the relatives came, prepared to remove the body, they found no Aristeas, either alive or dead
Read record →No one can help being struck by the bald and meagre character of these stories as a whole
No one can help being struck by the bald and meagre character of these stories as a whole
Read record →One really beautiful ghost story has, however, come down to us.[99] Phlegon of Tralles was a freedman of the…
One really beautiful ghost story has, however, come down to us.[99] Phlegon of Tralles was a freedman of the Emperor Hadrian
Read record →Great was the confusion, and no one could tell what to do, when Hyllus, who is not only considered the best…
Great was the confusion, and no one could tell what to do, when Hyllus, who is not only considered the best diviner among us, but is also a great authority on the interpretation of the flight of birds, and is generally well versed in his art, got up and said t
Read record →At first he thought it was only a favourite boy of his indulging in a little hunting with some friends; but on…
At first he thought it was only a favourite boy of his indulging in a little hunting with some friends; but on looking up he saw in front of him a woman at least three hundred feet high, with a sword thirty feet long
Read record →I will include here a couple of stories which, if they cannot exactly be classed as stories of warning…
I will include here a couple of stories which, if they cannot exactly be classed as stories of warning apparitions, are interesting in themselves, and may at least be considered as ghost stories
Read record →Ælian[110] has a charming story of Philemon, the comic poet
Ælian[110] has a charming story of Philemon, the comic poet
Read record →CHAPTER IX Hypnotism in medicine—Anesthesia—Restoring the use of muscles—Hallucination—Bad habits
When submitted to close investigation, it was, however, found that they could only be induced when the subjects knew they were being magnetized, and that they differed according as they were conducted in public or in private
Read record →CHAPTER IX Hypnotism in medicine—Anesthesia—Restoring the use of muscles—Hallucination—Bad habits
We have seen that so far the history of hypnotism has given us two manifestations, or methods, that of passes and playing upon the imagination in various ways, used by Mesmer, and that of physical means, such as looking at a bright object, used by Braid
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Electricity is a form of vibration, and according to the belief of many scientists, life is a species of vibration so high that we have no possible means of measuring it
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He finally discovered, by the thrill that sent a tremor through the mighty structure, that he had found the note on which the great cable that upheld the mass, was keyed
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It is well known that one part of the brain may be affected without affecting the other parts
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This theory is based on the power of mind over the body as we observe it in everyday life
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One young fellow, aged about eighteen, said that he was addicted to the cigarette habit
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This was repeated on half a dozen subjects, and the manifestations were the same in each case
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When his mind had absorbed this idea he was ordered to open his exhibition
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The will of another is not so easily implanted as has been claimed
Read record →CHAPTER IX Hypnotism in medicine—Anesthesia—Restoring the use of muscles—Hallucination—Bad habits
Later we shall see some of the outrageous forms this charlatanism assumes, and how it extends to the professional subjects as well as to the professional operators, till those subjects even impose upon scientific men who ought to be proof against such deceptio
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Now persons of this character are in most cases morally as well as physically degenerate, and it is a curious fact that deception seems to be an inherent element in nearly all such characters
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If an ordinary person were asked to hold out his arms at full length for five minutes he would soon become exhausted, his breathing would quicken, his pulse-rate increase
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