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Cyprian states that he was divinely instructed in a dream to mix a little water with the wine for the Holy Eucharist.[115] On the general subject, S
Read record →“After the strangers had taken some refreshment, and were about to depart in order to prosecute their journey, Rogers earnestly entreated the little man at once to quit his fellow-traveller
Read record →“Five months after his death, however, the Rector of the parish in which he had lived, had what he termed ‘a waking dream,’ in which he imagined that the deceased gentleman came to him in sorrow, and solemnly conjured him to obtain possession of a Will, which
Read record →Some two centuries ago, as the Head of the Family was passing by a hill near or at Crieff, he discovered a large crowd, presided over by one of the Campbells of ----, preparing to execute a witch
Read record →Second Sight, indications of the existence of which have already been given, appears to be a power or property of seeing beforehand events which are still in the future, and such sight claimed by several[145] is said to belong to many persons in Scotland
Read record →In John Aubrey’s “Miscellanies”[146] is recorded a remarkable escape from death of Dr
Read record →The second example is equally remarkable:--“A singular case of Second Sight is reported from the neighbourhood of Marlborough
Read record →not say I can give a perfect definition in this matter, which is hard to do even in known things, because the essential form is hard to be found, yet I do give a definition which may at the least give notice and make known what manner of persons they be of who
Read record →[71] “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.”--Exodus xxii
Read record →For example, Asclepiades, who lived in the time of Pompey the Great, cured diseases by magic, enjoining upon his patient, in the case of the falling sickness, to bind upon his arm a Cross with a Nail driven into it
Read record →There seems no reason for doubting that, as we have already stated, they were of the nature of magic, sorcery, or witchcraft; though we cannot profess accurately to define what such terms might import
Read record →[87] It is asserted by several authorities that no less than three thousand persons were executed for Witchcraft during that dark period of heretical pravity, the Great Rebellion
Read record →discourse very rationally of her selfe & condition, a full account whereof would be too long to give; ’tis said that for these 4 or 5 dayes past (in which tyme I have not seene her) somewhat appeares to her in ye shape of a dogg
Read record →by the Assistance of these Hellish Animals they often Kill’d Men Women and Children to the great surprise of all the towns thereabouts; she further adding that it was all the Delight they had to be doing such wicked Actions and they had Kil’d by their Inchantm
Read record →However a little before they were ty’d up; at the request of the Minister, Ellinor Shaw confessed not only the Crime for which she Dyed, but openly declared before them all how she first became a Witch, as did also Mary Phillips; and being desired to say their
Read record →[104] There was a notorious sorcerer and reputed necromancer in King James the First’s reign, a certain Dr
Read record →The eclipse demon, Râhu, whose name means "the looser" or "the seizer," was one of the Asuras or demons
Read record →In the eastern districts of the North-Western Provinces there is a regular rite common to all the inferior castes that a few days before a wedding the women go in procession to the village clay-pit and fetch from there the sacred earth (matmangara), which is u
Read record →Earthquakes are also naturally an object of terror
Read record →of Adi Buddha floated on its surface
Read record →Numerous instances of the same idea have been collected by Dr
Read record →If it breaks it is a bad omen, and a new site will be selected a week afterwards
Read record →They work on much the same lines as their brethren in England, who discover springs by means of the divining rod
Read record →The water of many wells is efficacious in the cure of disease
Read record →They laughingly consented, and after removing a little earth a clear fountain gushed forth
Read record →the tank at Chakratîratha, near Nîmkhâr, marks the spot where the Chakra or discus of Vishnu fell during his contest with Asuras
Read record →On the Mâtra hill lives a Deo or demon known as Darrapât Deo
Read record →The old weather god was Indra, who wars with Vritra or Ahi, the dragon demon of drought, whom he compels to dispense the rain
Read record →Some put an axe in the open air with the edge turned up, so that the hailstones may be cut in pieces and cease falling
Read record →The same principle was laid down by Pythagoras; [200] and Herodotus [201] describes the people of Psylli marching in a body to fight the south wind which had dried up their water-tanks
Read record →All over the world people say that if when a meteor or falling star darts across the sky they can utter a wish before it disappears, that wish will be granted
Read record →This process is actually still going on before our eyes
Read record →First among the heroic godlings is Hanumân, "He of the large jaws," or, as he is generally called, Mahâbîr, the "great hero," the celebrated monkey chief of the Râmâyana, who assisted Râma in his campaign against the giant Râvana to recover Sîtâ
Read record →All the people assemble, and two men, known as the Mattiwâh and the Pattiwâh, "the earth man" and "the leaf man," who represent the gods of the soil and of the trees, soon become filled with the spirit and are found to be possessed by the local deities
Read record →It would not suit him to have the local ghosts brought under any control, because he makes his living by doing the periodical services to propitiate them
Read record →It is a commonplace of folk-lore and the beliefs of all savage races that disease and death are not the result of natural causes, but are the work of devils and demons, witchcraft, the Evil Eye, and so forth
Read record →These deities sometimes become displeased for no apparent reason, sometimes because their accustomed worship is neglected, and sometimes through the malignity of some witch
Read record →So she made a pilgrimage to Hardwâr, and thence set off to visit the holy shrines situated in the upper course of the Ganges
Read record →This has obviously passed through the mill of Brâhmanism
Read record →The people on all sides were ready by force to arrest the progress of these nocturnal visitors
Read record →In the western districts of the North-Western Provinces the rite takes a more advanced form
Read record →In Gujarât, among the wilder tribes, the belief prevails that cholera is caused by old women who feed on the corpses of the victims of the pestilence
Read record →The number of these charms is legion, and most exorcisers have one of their own in which they place special confidence and which they are unwilling to disclose
Read record →A few examples of the formulæ used by the village "cunning man" may be given here
Read record →When the Ojha is called in to identify the demon which has beset a patient, he begins by ascertaining whether it is a local ghost or an outsider which has attacked him on a journey
Read record →He takes some barley in a sieve, which as we shall see is a very powerful fetish, and shakes it until only a few grains are left in the interstices
Read record →In Hoshangâbâd the Bhomka sorcerer has a handful of grain waved over the head of the sick man
Read record →So in Bombay among the Marâthas the worship of the chief goddess of the Dakkhin, Tuljâ Bhavânî, is celebrated by a set of dancing devotees, called Gondhalis, whose leader becomes possessed by the goddess
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