The History of Magic, Volume 2H.G. Bohn, 1854 |
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... answer is , that it is owing to the universally strict silence of the initiated . Another cause may be found in the destruction and total loss of all the written memorials of the secret knowledge of the remotest antiquity , so that ...
... answer is , that it is owing to the universally strict silence of the initiated . Another cause may be found in the destruction and total loss of all the written memorials of the secret knowledge of the remotest antiquity , so that ...
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... answer . On account of his address and eloquence , Hermes was made herald and proclaimer of the gods , Ερμῆς , λόγως , λόγου προφητής . The heralds were public orators in em- bassies , in commissions , and in assemblies of the people ...
... answer . On account of his address and eloquence , Hermes was made herald and proclaimer of the gods , Ερμῆς , λόγως , λόγου προφητής . The heralds were public orators in em- bassies , in commissions , and in assemblies of the people ...
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... answer , what result a sickness will have , what is necessary for the cure of it , and the like , they kneel down , and the sorcerer beats the drum ; at first with light strokes , but as he proceeds , with ever louder and stronger ones ...
... answer , what result a sickness will have , what is necessary for the cure of it , and the like , they kneel down , and the sorcerer beats the drum ; at first with light strokes , but as he proceeds , with ever louder and stronger ones ...
Page 99
... answer which he has sought , or till he himself falls into ecstasy , when he generally lays the kettle - drum on his head . Then he sings with a loud voice a song which they call Jogke ; and the men and women who stand round sing songs ...
... answer which he has sought , or till he himself falls into ecstasy , when he generally lays the kettle - drum on his head . Then he sings with a loud voice a song which they call Jogke ; and the men and women who stand round sing songs ...
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... answered that he would not cease till he had finished his work if all the devils in hell came . At the end of the fourth day , there sat on the end of the beam in the roof of the barn a black cat with fire - flaming eyes , and there was ...
... answered that he would not cease till he had finished his work if all the devils in hell came . At the end of the fourth day , there sat on the end of the beam in the roof of the barn a black cat with fire - flaming eyes , and there was ...
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