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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
Read record →In laying to the account of the supernatural matters in occult natural philosophy which have a tolerable resemblance to feats of prestidigitation, they appear to a curious public to add imposture to insolence
Read record →s book what truth there is in the phenomena of table-turnings, table-movings, and table-rappings, in the communications received therefrom, in levitations that contradict the laws of gravity, in the moving of objects without contact, in unexplained noises, in
Read record →In the country of Rabelais, of Montaigne, of Voltaire, we are inclined to smile at everything that relates to the marvellous, to tales of enchantment, the extravagances of occultism, the mysteries of magic
Read record →Let me add that this medium came to Paris during the first months of the year, 1906, at the invitation of the Psychological Institute, several members of which have been recently engaged in researches begun long ago
Read record →Running underneath all the observations of the above-mentioned writers, one dominant idea can be read as if in palimpsest; namely, the imperious necessity the experimenters are constantly under of suspecting tricks in this medium (Mme
Read record →It may not be superfluous to caution the reader that the word "medium" is employed in these pages without any preconceived idea, and not in the etymological sense in which it took its rise at the time of the first Spiritualistic theories, which affirmed that t
Read record →Take the case of the levitation of a round table
Read record →We are obliged to act as if there really were a being present who is listening
Read record →These taps audible in the table, this "typtology" well known to Spiritualists, have been frequently attributed to some kind of trickery or another, to a cracking muscle or to various actions of the medium
Read record →The lady, who is a person of plain common sense, courteously laughs in his face
Read record →So, then, all you have to do, gentlemen, is to forbid the light to blacken iodine, or order it to blacken lime, and condemn the photographer to develop his negative in full light
Read record →Phrases are rapped out, usually banal and without any literary, scientific, or philosophical value
Read record →The success of experiments does not always depend on the will of the medium
Read record →They denied also that fish and toads can fall from the clouds, because it had not then been observed that waterspouts draw them up by suction and transport them from one place to another
Read record →During seance experiments, phantoms often appear,--hands, arms, a head, a bust, an entire human figure
Read record →The members came together every Friday evening in the assembly room of the society, in the little passageway of Sainte Anne, which was placed under the protection of Saint Louis
Read record →At the same period, but several years earlier, my illustrious friend Victorien Sardou, who had been an occasional frequenter of the Observatory, had written, as a medium, some curious pages on the inhabitants of the planet Jupiter, and had produced picturesque
Read record →o not move the hand, but let it remain inert, passive, free; we place it upon the paper, taking care merely that it shall meet with the least possible resistance; we think of a word, a figure, a stroke of the pen, and the hand of its own volition begins to wri
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