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Harriet Martineau's account of her childish terror caused by seeing some prismatic colours dancing on the wall of a vacant room she was entering--'imps' that had no worse origin than a tremulous candelabrum, but which haunted her nerves through life--is an exp
Read record →A king out hunting lies down to drink from a lake (as in the story related on p
Read record →It lies on the verge of Teufelsee,--a lake dark and small, and believed to be fathomless
Read record →In countries where the popular imagination, instead of being scientific, is trained to be religiously retrospective, it relapses at the slightest touch into the infantine speculations of the human race
Read record →Venus' doves, soiled for a time, were spiritualised at last and made white, while the snowy swan grew darker
Read record →He replied that it contained an offer of salvation to 'all the children of Adam;' whereupon with a loud shriek she dashed into the sea again
Read record →Not only is he weaker than by day in the veil drawn over his senses, but physiologically also
Read record →This witch is, no doubt, Hildur, a Walkyr of the Edda, leading heroes to Walhalla
Read record →Among the sources of demoniac beliefs few indeed are more prolific than Dreams
Read record →It has always been the worst of periods of religious excitement that they shape the dreams of old and young, and find there a fearful and distorted, but vivid and realistic, embodiment of their feverish experiences
Read record →The limit of human courage is reached where its foe is beyond the reach of its force
Read record →Mental darkness, even more moral darkness within, supply the phantasmagoria in which unknown things shape themselves as demons
Read record →What we call the Dark Ages were indeed spiritually a perpetual seance with lights lowered
Read record →t in reading them to see that they are all substantially one and the same story, and that the sight in operation was indeed second; for man or woman, at once imaginative and illiterate, have a second and supernumerary pair of eyes inherited from the traditiona
Read record →What was seen on this strongly-authenticated occasion?
Read record →'Bright moonlight was there without, and the drift was broken, now drawn over the moon, now driven off from her; and even as Glam fell, a cloud was driven from the moon, and Glam glared up against her.' When the hero beheld these glaring eyes of the giant Ghos
Read record →The Moon-demon's power is limited to the spell of illusion he can cast
Read record →wast afraid.' [175] The emerods which smote the worshippers of Dagon were ascribed directly to the hand of Jehovah
Read record →The largest proportion of the Disease Demons of Ceylon are descended from its Hunger Demons
Read record →He resides in a hill where he is supposed to surround himself with carcases
Read record →[194] In the Hercules Furens of Euripides, where Madness, 'the unwedded daughter of black Night,' and sprung of 'the blood of Coelus,' is evoked from Tartarus for the express purpose of imbreeding in Hercules 'child-slaying disturbances of reason,' there is a
Read record →Such, to the savage mind, was the embodiment of malaria, sultriness, rottenness, the putrid Pretraya, invisible, but smelt and felt
Read record →He is said to have been the twin of the demigod Mangara by a queen on the Coromandel coast
Read record →Perhaps if Jemmy could have been cross-examined by the non-missionary mind, he might have replied with some effect to Mr
Read record →Hindu legend does, indeed, give another interpretation, and say that when she was dancing for joy at having slain a hundred-headed giant demigod, the shaking of the earth was so formidable that Siva threw himself among the slain, whom she was crushing at every
Read record →The amour of the Greek goddess of Beauty with the god of War, leaving her lawful spouse the Smith, is full of meaning
Read record →The greater part of the human race still belong to religions which, in their origin, promised eternal repose as the supreme final bliss
Read record →Keary, in his interesting volume on 'The Dawn of History,' [202] says that it has been suggested that the youthful winged figure on the drum of a column from the temple of Diana at Ephesus to the British Museum, may be a representation of Thanatos, Death
Read record →Haug interprets Anra-mainyu as 'Death-darting.' The word is the counterpart of Speñta-mainyu, and means originally the 'throttling spirit;' being thus from anh, philologically the root of all evil, as we shall see when we consider its dragon brood
Read record →'As sickness and death,' says Professor Whitney, 'were supposed to be the work of the malignant powers, the dead body itself was regarded with superstitious horror
Read record →From the old pictures of Christ's triumphal pilgrimage on earth parallels for the chief Labours of Herakles may be found; he is shown treading on the lion, asp, dragon, and Satan; but the myths converge in the Descent into Hades and the conquest of Death
Read record →The devil, as heir of death-demons, appears in all European folklore as a hater of salt
Read record →The Semitic Angel of Death is a figure very different from any that we have considered
Read record →For Samaël is pretty certainly a conception borrowed from outlying Semitic tribes
Read record →One of the most pleasing modifications of the belief in the Angel of Death is that found by Lepsius [208] among the Mohammedan negroes of Kordofan
Read record →There are indeed Azraëls in our cities who poison the food and drink of the people, and mingle death in the cup of water; and of them there should be increasing horror until the gentler angel abides with us, and death by old age becomes normal
Read record →the flowers sacred to Freyja became Our Lady's-glove, or slipper, or smock--there remained to the old gods, in their own name, only the repulsive and puerile, and by this means they were doomed at once to become unmitigated knaves and fools
Read record →The most horrible superstitions, if tracked in their popular development, reveal with special impressiveness the progressive emancipation of man from the phantasms of ferocity which represented his primal helplessness
Read record →The last execution of a man for being an occasional werewolf was, I believe, in 1589, near Cologne, there being some evidence of cannibalism
Read record →So came most of the monsters we have been describing--Animals, Volcanoes, Icebergs, Deserts, though they might be--by growing culture and mastery of nature to be called 'the little people;' and perhaps it is rather through pity than euphemism when they were so
Read record →Heroes before Falstaff were liable to overstate their foes in buckram
Read record →Perhaps it may be thought somewhat arbitrary that I should describe all these intermediate forms between demon and devil by the term Dragon; but I believe there is no other fabulous form which includes so many individual types of transition, or whose evolution
Read record →The opinion has steadily gained that the conventional dragon is the traditional form of some huge Saurian
Read record →Concerning this theory, it may be said that the earliest descriptions, both written and pictorial, which have been discovered of the reptilian monsters around which grew the germs of our dragon-myths, are crocodiles or serpents, and not dragons of any conventi
Read record →There would appear to be as little reason for ascribing to the Tannin of the Old Testament the significance of dragon, though it is generally so translated
Read record →The serpent as an animal is a consummate development
Read record →John Ruskin once remarked upon Turner's picture of the Dragon guarding the Hesperides, that this conception so early as 1806, when no Saurian skeleton was within the artist's reach, presented a singular instance of the scientific imagination
Read record →The sacrifices offered to that animal are alone sufficient to prove this
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