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And the high-priest rose, and in a wild chant he invoked Tangaroa the Ocean God, and called upon many a deified ancestral spirit
Read record →Dizzily narrow now led the path between two craters
Read record →In the extreme north of the North Island of New Zealand is the Muri-whenua, the Land’s End, where the never-resting surges thunder at the feet of the bare rocky capes, and the giant sea-kelp swirls in long snaky masses round the fabled gateway to the Maori spi
Read record →The notes would amply repay the labour of republication, with a summary and suitable index
Read record →All untoward occurrences in domestic affairs, all bodily ailments and unusual natural phenomena, inexplicable to the simple mind of the villager, are attributed to the malignant action of these nameless and numerous spirits, hovering over and haunting the habi
Read record →The centre with the circumference is the womb, the place of creation of the universe
Read record →food or from wearing certain articles of clothing for a certain number of days
Read record →Another belief is that the God Vishnu, at the time of his Vaman (or Dwarf) incarnation, touched the ina (i.e., the Egg) in his third footstep and thus caused a flow of waters, which is known as akash-ganga
Read record →The prevalent belief about lightning seems to be that it is the girl whom Kansa tried to dash against a stone, but who escaped and went up to the sky
Read record →The Ganges, the Jumna, and the Godavari are said to be the holiest of all rivers
Read record →To stop an incessant fall of rain, people often observe the Aladra vow
Read record →Several stories, in addition to the legend of the Ramayana, are related of the birth of the god Hanuman
Read record →Fly, therefore, instantly with your family and never turn your face towards the city in your flight"
Read record →The present site of Lilapur was formerly uninhabited, and the village stood nearly one mile off
Read record →During the famine of the year 1895 Samvat era (= 1839 A
Read record →Periodical fevers are believed to be under the control of certain spirits
Read record →Sometimes Brahmans instead of bhuvas are engaged to exorcise an evil spirit from the body of a sick person
Read record →The soul is not said to have finally perished unless it merges into the divine self and attains moksha or salvation
Read record →About a month and a quarter after the delivery of a woman, a ceremony called zarman zarvan is performed, when the woman goes to a neighbouring stream or well to fetch water for the first time after her delivery
Read record →(1) Cotton, (2) ashes, (3) bones, (4) whey, (5) singing, (6) merriment, (7) laughing, (8) studying, (9) a woman dressed in red, (10) a red mark on the forehead, (11) a gandharva or heavenly bard, (12) a demon, (13) a wizard, (14) a witch, (15) a prickly shrub,
Read record →Some believe that the souls of persons meeting a violent death enter the order of such ghosts as Jinni, Mamo, etc
Read record →As soon as it is ascertained that a man is possessed by an evil spirit, somebody catches hold of the top-knot of the man or ties it into a knot
Read record →There is a step-well near Hampar under the jurisdiction of Dhrangadhra which is the resort of a bhut
Read record →The person who wishes to take a samadh goes into a deep trance by meditation, and then runs yelling and screaming to the pit, while drums are beaten furiously and a loud din is raised, so that none should hear a possible exclamation or cry from the runner
Read record →The following pages aim at presenting in brief compass a selection of the evidence upon which the hypothesis of thought-transference, or telepathy, is based
Read record →Thus the experiments conducted by Mrs
Read record →This may be seen even in Sciences which deal with matters of common observation
Read record →"Ghosts" and warning dreams have been matters of popular belief and interest since the earliest ages known to history, and are prevalent amongst even the least advanced races at the present time
Read record →ther subjects, to which must be added the alleged marvels of the Spiritualists, there have indeed been one or two isolated series of observations by competent inquirers, but for the most part the learned have held themselves free to ascribe the phenomena witho
Read record →In the same way scientific men for long refused to admit the existence of aerolites, as they now decline to credit the reports of a Sea Serpent of colossal proportions
Read record →The conclusion that under certain conditions thought-transference may occur rests upon reasoning similar to that by which Dr
Read record →But it necessarily happens on occasion that neither agent nor percipient are by education and position absolutely removed from suspicion of trickery in a matter where trickery might to imperfectly educated persons appear almost venial
Read record →ore elaborate form of collusion is described at length by Bonjean.[7] In this case the subject, a young woman named Lully, appears to have read the words to be conveyed after the fashion of a deaf mute, by the motion of the lips of the showman
Read record →(2) Hyperæsthesia.--But, after all, it is rarely necessary to take special precautions against fraud, for there are dangers to be guarded against of a more subtle kind
Read record →The actual figures were three millimetres high, and their corneal image is calculated by M
Read record →It seems probable in the cases described by M
Read record →ut though we can look for little evidence from experiments conducted with contact, or under conditions which allow of interpretation by gesture, etc., and their repetition in this connection can rarely be expected to serve any useful purpose, it seems worth po
Read record →Persons living constantly in the same physical and intellectual environment are apt to present a close similarity in their ideas
Read record →It is somewhat remarkable that the facts of thought-transference should only have attracted serious attention within the last two decades
Read record →arrett, of the Royal College of Science, Dublin, who, in a paper read before the British Association at Glasgow in 1876, first isolated the phenomenon from its somewhat dubious surroundings, and drew public attention to its importance
Read record →The particular form of telepathy which first attracted attention to the whole subject, the transmission to the percipient of impressions of taste and pain experienced by the agent, appears to have been observed in the normal state very rarely
Read record →Sometimes a percipient has stated that he heard the name of the thing thought of; as, for instance, in a case recorded in Chapter V., where the percipient "heard" the word gloves before "seeing" a vision of them
Read record →This lack of evidence for auditory transmission is no doubt largely due to a desire on the part of experimenters in the first instance to make the proof of actual thought-transference as complete as possible
Read record →In the following cases, where the exact nature of the impression received was not apparently consciously classified by the percipient, it may be presumed to have been either of a visual or an auditory nature
Read record →In the following set of experiments, made by Dr
Read record →In June 1885 some successful experiments in thought-transference were made by Herr Dessoir, of Berlin, author of A Bibliography of Modern Hypnotism, and other works, with the co-operation of some friends, Herren Weiss, Biltz, and Sachse
Read record →There are indications, moreover, that the hypnotic state itself may present in many cases a specialised manifestation of that rapport which would appear to exist generally between Agent and Percipient in thought-transference
Read record →But when we leave these experiments in the transfer of the less specialised forms of sensation we find that but few observers have paid attention to the phenomena of telepathy in the hypnotic state
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