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I have observed above that the toad's place is sometimes taken in popular tales by the horned lizard; the lizard also represents the demoniacal shape, the shape of a witch
Read record →It is, moreover, believed that the green lizard, if caught and put in a vase full of oil, will produce the oil of a ramarro, which is said to be good against wounds and poisons
Read record →In an unpublished Tuscan story, related to me by Uliva Selvi at Antignano near Leghorn, instead of the toad we have a magician of frightful aspect
Read record →The feet and the tail; the serpent is the favourite form of the demon; the devil is betrayed by his tail.--The serpent and the waters; the dragon as the keeper back of the waters, and as the guardian of the treasures; the devil evoked from the waters.--The ott
Read record →The serpent-devil draws to himself every beautiful thing, now to swallow them, now to preserve and guard them like a miser
Read record →The serpent, the first-born of the serpents, was lying in the mountain;[532] he was lying under his mother,[533] he was keeping the waters, his wives, shut up, as a miser his treasure, or a robber the stolen cows;[534] a miser or rich robber[535] resembling a
Read record →The gods bandage his eyes; the serpent sings a verse in praise of the somas; the gods, as an antidote, sing several verses, and counteract the effect of the serpent's verse
Read record →Râmas cuts one of his arms off, and the arm cut off (or the serpent, or the cloud cut off, like the stick of fairy tales which beats of itself) continues to massacre the monkeys
Read record →species; it devours nations, but preserves the regenerative kings; it poisons plants, and throws men into deep sleep, but it gives new strength in its occult domain to the sun, who gives new life to the world every morning and every spring
Read record →From the gloomy serpent of night, the tenebrous serpent of winter, even the nocturnal and wintry heavens illumined by the moon, and from the white moon, emerges the diurnal sun, the sun of spring, the day and the warm and luminous season
Read record →Ahuramazda and Anhromainyu, who occupy the first place as the creators of the world, are also two males in opposition to one another
Read record →The tree rises up to heaven, and its root goes down to hell, where Seth sees the soul of his brother Abel
Read record →] A variety of the Hindoo legend of the hawk (Indras), of the dove (Agnis), and of King Çivis, who, to save the dove from the hawk, his guest, gives some of his own flesh to the hawk to eat
Read record →[590] These marvels are always three, as the apples are three, the beautiful girls three, the enchanted palaces in the kingdom of the serpents which they inhabit three (cfr
Read record →and the shadows of the mythological monsters rise again before me, and occupy my fearful thoughts
Read record →Certainly, I am far from believing that this was the intention of the myth
Read record →Aurora, the cow, process of re-creating, i
Read record →the fire-god Agnis, 10; his fields of battle, 12, 15; great exploits of, 12; threefold victory, 13, 14; weapons of, 14; companion of Somas, 18, 19; the triple, 20; moments of, 20, 23; special function, 27; relations to the aurora, 27; and the blind lame one, 3
Read record →nd the Somas, 397, 398; the phallical, 399; Anantas, 399; Vasukis, 400; and the cloud-monster, 400, 401; the funereal, 401, 402; -rope, of Yamas, 402; collar of, 402; and Sîtâ, 402; and riches, 403; and the lower world, 403; Karkotakas, and Nalas, 405; and hun
Read record →KAUHUHU, THE SHARK GOD OF MOLOKAI 49 VIII
Read record →Another side of Hawaiian folk-lore is just as worthy of comparison
Read record →When a man found a fine koa tree he went to the priest whose province was canoe-making and said, "I have found a koa-tree, a fine large tree." On receiving this information the priest went at night to sleep before his shrine
Read record →On the morrow he could not find the log
Read record →Ma-eli-eli, the dragon woman of Heeia, tried to persuade him to stop, but on he went
Read record →Meanwhile the sorcerer ruler of the birds agreed to find out where Kawelona was to satisfy the longing of his parents, whom he had left without showing them where he was going or what dangers he might meet
Read record →After many years had passed Hina assumed permanently the shape of the beautiful ohia-tree, making her home in the forest around the volcanoes of Hawaii
Read record →When Kukali awoke he found himself in the shut-in valley with many companions who had been captured by the great bird and placed in this prison hole
Read record →Kamakau means "the afraid." His name came to him as a child
Read record →The stone face was magnificent in its setting
Read record →Mahana's elder brother was a kahuna, or witch-doctor, of great celebrity
Read record →How could these ghosts be detected?
Read record →Kahala, the rainbow-maiden, with all the beauty of her past girlhood restored to her, drew near, attended by the two spirit-sisters who had saved and protected her
Read record →The chief sorcerer eagerly ordered a calabash of water to be quickly brought and placed before him
Read record →He taught konane, a game commonly called "Hawaiian checkers," but more like the Japanese game of "Go." He permitted them to gamble, betting all the kinds of property found in ghost-land
Read record →Ka-ilio-hae (the wild dog) had been sick for days and at last sank into a state of unconsciousness
Read record →As he came near this doorway to the spirit-world he met the ghost of a sister who had died long before, and to whom was given the power of sometimes turning a ghost back to its body again
Read record →The ghost-sister led Ka-ilio-hae into the place of whirlwinds, a hill where he heard the voices of many spirits planning to enjoy all the sports of their former life
Read record →The daughter of Hina and Olopana, Kau-lana-iki-pokii, cried to go with her brother, but Mo-o-inanea called for her dragon family to make a boat for her and ordered one of the sorcerer dragons to go with her and guard her
Read record →He loved his brother-in-law, and asked, "How did you come to this place?" Puna told him all the story
Read record →The cheeks grow red; And the eyes flash fire
Read record →Then the darkness of evening came, and in the shadows the little people labored in the moonless night
Read record →Soon the tendrils grew tight and slowly but surely choked the beautiful chiefess to death
Read record →He taught him the peculiar incantations which would enable him to meet all cunning tricks and enmities of man
Read record →Sometimes the desolate spirit would be blown, as by the wind, back and forth, here and there, until no possible place of rest could be found on the island where death had come; then the ghost would leap into the sea, hoping to find the way to Milu through some
Read record →After death came, the ghost crept out of the body, coming up from the feet until it rested in the eyes, and then it came out from the corner of one eye, and had a kind of wind body
Read record →There were ghost ancestors who made their homes near the places where the members of their families toiled; there were ancestor-ghosts to take care of the tapa, or kapa, makers, or the calabash or house or canoe makers
Read record →The Hawaiians have this to say about sacrifices for the aumakuas: If a mo-o, or dragon-god, was angry with its caretaker or his family and they became weak and sick, they would sacrifice a spotted dog with awa, red fish, red sugar-cane, and some of the grass g
Read record →Dragons were among the ghost-gods of the ancient Hawaiians
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