Demonology and Devil-lore, Band 1Chatto and Windus, 1879 |
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... ANIMALS . Animal demons distinguished - Trivial sources of Mythology - Hedge- hog - Fox - Transmigrations in Japan - Horses bewitched - Rats -Lions - Cats - The Dog - Goethe's horror of dogs - Supersti- tions of the Parsees , people of ...
... ANIMALS . Animal demons distinguished - Trivial sources of Mythology - Hedge- hog - Fox - Transmigrations in Japan - Horses bewitched - Rats -Lions - Cats - The Dog - Goethe's horror of dogs - Supersti- tions of the Parsees , people of ...
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... animal forms in the zodiac . In one of the earliest hymns of the Rig - Veda it is said — ' This earth belongs to Varuna ( Ovpavós ) the king , and the wide sky : he is contained also in this drop of water . ' As the sky was seen ...
... animal forms in the zodiac . In one of the earliest hymns of the Rig - Veda it is said — ' This earth belongs to Varuna ( Ovpavós ) the king , and the wide sky : he is contained also in this drop of water . ' As the sky was seen ...
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... animal into the region where poets could invest it with many profound and beautiful signi- ficances . But these more distinctly terrible deities are found in the shadowy border - land of mythology , from which we may look back into ages ...
... animal into the region where poets could invest it with many profound and beautiful signi- ficances . But these more distinctly terrible deities are found in the shadowy border - land of mythology , from which we may look back into ages ...
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... animal inferiors . In one of the islands ( Aitutaki ) ; Miru is believed to resort to a device which is certainly terrible - namely , the contrivance that each soul entering the nether world shall drink a bowl of living centipedes ; but ...
... animal inferiors . In one of the islands ( Aitutaki ) ; Miru is believed to resort to a device which is certainly terrible - namely , the contrivance that each soul entering the nether world shall drink a bowl of living centipedes ; but ...
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... animal will refuse to tread on the vampyre's grave , and the body is taken out and a stake driven through it , always by a single blow . A related class of demons are the ' heart - devourers . ' They touch their victim with an aspen or ...
... animal will refuse to tread on the vampyre's grave , and the body is taken out and a stake driven through it , always by a single blow . A related class of demons are the ' heart - devourers . ' They touch their victim with an aspen or ...
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ages Agni Ahriman Alcestis ancient angel animal Apophis appear ascribed Azazel Azru bear beautiful become belief burning called character Chimæra christian dance dark dead death deities Demonology demons desert devil devouring diseases divine dragon Drisa earth evil eyes fables fear fiery fire flames folklore giant goat goddess gods Gog and Magog haunted head heaven hell Hindu holy human hymns India Indra Jehovah killed king Lambton Worm legend light Max Müller means Moloch monster moon moral mountain myth mythology nature night origin passed Perun popular præternatural priests primitive probably race regions religion represented Rig-Veda rock Rudra sacred Sanskrit Saranyu Satan says seen serpent slain snake soul spirits stone story superstition temples terror thee thou tion told tree tribes Typhon Vedic venom Vritra werewolf wild witch wolf word worm worship Zeus
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Dictionary of Ancient Deities Patricia Turner,Charles Russell Coulter Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2001 |