Curiosities of Superstition, and Sketches of Some Unrevealed Religions by Adams
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Author | Adams, W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport), 1828-1891 |
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LoC No. | 17016017 |
Title | Curiosities of Superstition, and Sketches of Some Unrevealed Religions |
Contents | Buddhism, its origin and ceremonies -- Magianism: the Parsees -- Jewish superstitions -- Brahmanism -- Hindu mythology, and the Vishnu Purana -- In China: Confucianism, Taouism, and Buddhism -- Among the Malays, the Slamatan Bromok, the Dyaks, the Papuan tribes, the Ahetas -- The savage races of Asia: the Samojedes; the Mongols; the Ostiaks; in Tibet -- Some African superstitions -- The Zulu witch-finders -- Zabianism and serpent-worship -- Polynesian superstitions -- The Fiji islanders -- The religion of the Maories -- The North American Indians -- Among the Eskimos -- A mediæval superstition: the flagellants -- Scottish superstitions: Halloween -- Second sight; divination; universality of certain superstitions; fairies in Scotland. |
Credits | E-text prepared by the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http: //www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (http: //archive.org) |
Language | English |
LoC Class | BL: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Religion: General, Miscellaneous and Atheism |
Subject | Folklore |
Subject | Superstition |
Subject | Religions |
Category | Text |
EBook-No. | 41566 |
Release Date | Dec 5, 2012 |
Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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