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The Mysteries of All Nations: Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales
Autor: Grant, James
Nakladatelství:
Books LLC
ISBN: 9781443240130
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2249 Kč
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2044 Kč
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Excerpt: RISE AND PROGRESS OF SUPERSTITION, LAWS AGAINST AND TRIALS OF WITCHES, ANCIENT AND MODERN DELUSIONS, TOGETHER WITH Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales RELATING TO MYTHOLOGYDAYS AND WEEKSMIRACLESPOETS AND SUPERSTITIONMONARCHS, PRIESTS, AND PHILOSOPHERSDRUIDSDEMONOLOGYMAGIC AND ASTROLOGYDIVINATIONSIGNS, OMENS, AND WARNINGSAMULETS AND CHARMSTRIALS BY ORDEALCURSES AND EVIL WISHESDREAMS AND VISIONSSUPERSTITION IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. By JAMES GRANT. LEITH: REID SON, 35 Shore. EDINBURGH: W. PATERSON. LONDON: SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, AND CO. [THE RIGHT OF TRANSLATION IS RESERVED.] REID AND SON, PRINTERS, LEITH. PREFACE. In whatever light this work may be regarded by archologists and general readers, the writer submits it to the public, chiefly as the result of antiquarian research, and actual observation during a period of nearly forty years. The writer does not attempt to define what superstition is, either in its broadest or most literal sense; but, as he desires the expression to be understood, it may be considered to imply a fear of the Evil One and his emissaries, a trust in benign spirits and saints, a faith in occult science, and a belief that a conjunction of certain planets or other inanimate bodies is capable of producing supernatural effects, either beneficial or prejudicial to man. Superstition, generally so called, has run through a course of ages from sire to son, leaving it still deeply rooted in the minds of many of the present generation. Not a few seeming repetitions in this work are not such in reality, but are instances brought forward to mark the resemblance between the opinions prevalent in past and present times, and to illustrate the similarity of perverted views in various parts of the world. The examples of superstition herein given are taken from an almost unlimited number, yet the writer confesses to have omitted many interesting particulars. In proof of this it may be stated, that while the last sheet of these pages was being...Hodnocení uživatelů:
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