Project Gutenberg 2012-12-05 Public domain in the USA. 183 Adams, W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) 1828 1891 Adams, William Henry Davenport Adams, W.H. 17016017 Curiosities of Superstition, and Sketches of Some Unrevealed Religions 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. 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) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/41566/41566-h/images/cover.jpg en Folklore Superstition Religions BL Text 807350 807159 2024-07-17T12:07:58.157751 2023-09-18T07:07:29.925629 text/html text/html 809664 2012-12-05T15:20:42 text/html 333413 2012-12-05T15:24:53 text/html application/zip 350702 2024-07-17T12:08:08.384666 application/epub+zip 358214 2024-07-17T12:07:59.835713 application/epub+zip 358214 2024-07-17T12:07:58.983732 application/epub+zip 576295 2024-07-17T12:08:14.924639 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 505395 2024-07-17T12:08:07.251694 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 505514 2022-09-19T04:43:24.560737 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 736131 2024-07-17T12:07:56.763762 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 740040 2012-12-05T15:14:42 text/plain; charset=utf-8 291206 2012-12-05T15:14:42 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 735372 2012-12-05T15:14:42 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 289988 2012-12-05T15:14:42 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 735429 2012-12-05T15:14:42 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 289694 2012-12-05T15:14:42 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 22325 2024-07-17T12:08:15.077633 application/rdf+xml 9812 2024-07-17T12:07:59.105730 image/jpeg 1506 2024-07-17T12:07:59.043736 image/jpeg 329079 2024-07-17T12:07:58.225752 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia