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And now thousands of years after this was said we find the Dog still regarded as the seer of ghosts, and watcher at the gates of death, of whose opening his howl forewarns
Read record →But before the superstition reached Goethe's poem it had undergone many modifications; and especially its keen scent had influenced the Norse imagination to ascribe to it præternatural wisdom
Read record →Among the negroes of the Southern States in America I have found the belief that the most frequent form of a diabolical apparition is that of a large Dog with fiery eyes, which may be among them an original superstition attributable to their horror of the bloo
Read record →All the skill and power of the gods could not forge chains which might chain him; he snapped them like straws and toppled over the mountains to which he was fastened
Read record →In Canada, when the hunters kill a bear, one of them approaches it and places between his teeth the stem of his pipe, breathes in the bowl, and thus, filling with smoke the animal's mouth, conjures its soul not to be offended at his death
Read record →Ulysses, in his wanderings, having come to this town, one of his companions was stoned to death for having ravished a virgin; after which his ghost appeared in form of this demon, which had to be appeased, by the direction of the oracle of Apollo, by the annua
Read record →The child and the serpent in the same picture represent the origin of the demonic character attributed to the Eleans by the Arcadians
Read record →Many animal demons are mere fables for the ferocity of human tribes
Read record →Although, as we have seen, England was regarded on the Continent as an island of demons because of its northern latitude, probably some of its tribes were of a character dangerous enough to prolong the superstition
Read record →That such equalisation of apparently unequal forces has been known in pre-historic ages may be gathered from many fables
Read record →The Sagas contain many stories which, while written in glorification of the 'giant' race, relate the destruction of their chiefs by the magical powers of the dwarfs
Read record →Superstitions concerning dwarf-powers are especially rife in Northumberland, where they used to be called Duergar, and they were thought to abound on the hills between Rothbury and Elsdon
Read record →In the last century the 'Brownie' was commonly spoken of in Scotland as appearing in shape of 'a tall man,' and the name seems to refer to the brown complexion of that bogey, and its long brown hair, hardly Scottish
Read record →The natives of South Uist believed that a valley, called Glenslyte, situated between two mountains on the east side of the island, was haunted by these Great Men, and that if any one entered the valley without formally resigning themselves to the conduct of th
Read record →And when he came near to the land he went to the west side of Iceland, north around the land, when he saw all the mountains and hills full of land-serpents, some great, some small
Read record →Our astronomers and economists have enabled us to see clearly how the case is with the country whose temples offer no obstruction to christian vision
Read record →casional, as in India, it would be an inevitable result that they would represent the varying moods of a powerful will, and in such regions we naturally find the most extensive appliances for propitiation
Read record →Our tents lie in a valley, whither the plateau of the pyramids inclines, and are sheltered from the worst winds from the north and west
Read record →In the Apocalypse (ix.) a falling star is the token of the descent of the Locust-demon to unlock the pit that his swarms may issue forth for their work of destruction
Read record →In Egyptian symbolism those long ears were as much dreaded as devils' horns
Read record →became the very battlefields between rival deities, each demon to his or her rival; and the conflict lasts from the cursing of the 'high places' by the priests of Israel [141] to the Devil's Pulpits of the Alps and Apennines
Read record →These obstructive demons made the mountains Moul-ge and Nin-ge, names for the King and Queen of the Accadian Hell; they made the Finnish Mount Kippumaki the abode of all Pests
Read record →Four other demon princes rule over the principal mountain chains of the Empire
Read record →The plaudits which welcomed the first railway train that sped beneath the Alps, echoing amid their crags and gorges, struck with death the old phantasms which had so long held sway in the imagination of the Southern peasantry
Read record →Such was the case with Heimo, who owned and devastated a vast tract of country on the river Inn, which, however, he bridged--whence Innsbruck--when he became a christian and a monk
Read record →Every seven years she may be seen bathing in the stream
Read record →The water-demons have been already described in their obvious aspects, but it is necessary to mention here the simple obstructive river-demons haunting fords and burns, and hating bridges
Read record →The fee was to be the first three that crossed the bridge
Read record →An avalanche fell upon the home and garden of Miquelon; the poor man himself was disabled for life, his house and farm turned in a moment into a wild mass of stones
Read record →Most beautiful of all the goddesses of India is Maya, Illusion
Read record →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
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